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A project to build a faithful implementation of the 1976 MUMPS standard, including a parser, interpreter, and integrated hierarchical database, to study the original architecture and run historical software from the era.
This article provides an in-depth look at the customized Python ecosystems used by large investment banks, focusing on a fictionalized system called Minerva with a global object database named Barbara.
The article reviews AmigaOS 2, emphasizing its improvements over the original Workbench in color schemes, GUI toolkit, and usability, positioning it as a significant upgrade in the evolution of desktop operating systems.
In 1999, the Power Mac G4's performance led to U.S. export restrictions, which Steve Jobs turned into a marketing campaign.
This article introduces the Icon programming language, a high-level imperative language with advanced string and structure processing, generators, and goal-directed evaluation.
This 1989 paper draws a historical analogy between the dynamo and the computer to explain the modern productivity paradox, comparing the slow productivity gains from electrification with those from computing.
In August 2002, the OpenSSH source tarballs on the OpenBSD FTP server were replaced with trojaned versions, leading to a security incident and response by the OpenBSD team.
In 2006, curators from the Computer History Museum discovered a warehouse in Castrop-Rauxel, Germany, containing hundreds of rare historical computing artifacts, including Cold War-era Eastern Bloc systems, and cataloged the trove.
Donald Knuth's classic 1980 paper on the design and mathematics of the letter S in his Metafont system.
This article from Scientific American highlights Sharla Boehm, a pioneering programmer whose simulation work at RAND Corporation in the early 1960s laid critical groundwork for the modern Internet, yet her contributions were largely forgotten in mainstream histories.
This 1979 academic paper presents the foundations of a provably secure operating system (PSOS).