🖥️ Computing History - tyler · Scour

Continuing the story of early DOS development 💾Retro Computing

opensource.microsoft.com·4d·Hacker News, Hacker News, r/programming

Transcribing the Source of the First DOS for the IBM PC 💾Retro Computing

hackaday.com·2d

Recovering 86-DOS from Paper 💾Retro Computing

jscarsbrook.me·2d·Hacker News

Using a 1978 terminal in 2026 (DEC VT-100) 🕹️Terminal Games

nikhiljha.com·4d·Lobsters, Hacker News

In 1987, a Student Set Out to Fix a Mac Problem. The Code Spiraled Out of Control, and He Ended up Creating "Photoshop" 📺Glitch Art

dailygalaxy.com·2d·Hacker News

Notable links: May 1, 2026 🌿Digital Gardens

Why AI Struggles With Legacy Code and Institutional Knowledge 🤨AI Criticism

hackernoon.com·5d

Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date" 💾Retro Computing

arstechnica.com

·2d·Hacker News

Microsoft finally open sources DOS 1.0 - and it's so much more than the code 🌐Open Source

zdnet.com·4d·Hacker News

Linux 7.0 Release, Age Verification Laws, Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 & Other April Happenings 🐧Linux

phoronix.com·1d

Reducing technical debt with AI-powered SDLC 💬Prompt Engineering

kellton.com·1d·Hacker News

The Countess and the Engine 🔲Cellular Automata

drdavidwbell.substack.com·4d·Substack

Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930 🧠AI

talkie-lm.com·5d·Lobsters, Hacker News, r/LLM, r/LocalLLaMA, r/singularity

Running DOS and Unix on an 8-bit Commodore (2024) [video] 💾Retro Computing

archive.fosdem.org·5d·Hacker News

AT&T’s Unix PC 🐧Linux

hackaday.com·2d

Earliest 86-DOS and PC-DOS code released as open source 🕹️Terminal Games

osnews.com·3d·Hacker News

Vintage chatbot lives in the past like an elderly relative 🧠AI

theregister.com·4d·Hacker News

Who Asked For This? ✍️Tech Essays

calnewport.com·5d·Hacker News

Are "Vintage LLMs" the start of a new humanistic field? 🤨AI Criticism

resobscura.substack.com·3d·Substack

The “Bug-Free” Workforce: How AI Efficiency Is Subtly Disrupting The Interactions That Build Strong Teams 🤨AI Criticism

smashingmagazine.com·5d

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