https://www.computerhistory.org/tdih/january/10/#:~:text=What%20Happened%20on%20January%2010th&text=Donald%20Ervin%20Knuth%2C%20best%20known,most%20fundamental%20computer%20science%20procedures.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrNIxbPAMow
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https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-wordpad-gone-windows-11-1851144100
It's truly the end of an era as we say farewell to a real one.
https://www.tpug.ca/2024/01/tpug-meeting-for-january-11-2024-special-guest-bil-herd/
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/the-oldest-known-version-of-ms-doss-predecessor-has-been-discovered-and-uploaded/#:~:text=It%20began%20in%20mid%2D1980,Microsoft%20licensed%20and%20eventually%20purchased.
86-DOS would later be bought by Microsoft and take over the computing world.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/the-oldest-known-version-of-ms-doss-predecessor-has-been-discovered-and-uploaded/#:~:text=It%20began%20in%20mid%2D1980,Microsoft%20licensed%20and%20eventually%20purchased.
86-DOS would later be bought by Microsoft and take over the computing world.
https://www.computerhope.com/people/john_neumann.htm
Short biography of John von Neumann, who helped developed von Neumann architecture.
https://www.computerhope.com/people/john_neumann.htm
Short biography of John von Neumann, who helped developed von Neumann architecture.
https://technologizer.com/2023/04/15/the-end-of-computer-magazines-in-america/#:~:text=With%20Maximum%20PC%20and%20MacLife%27s,and%20was%20quite%20a%20run.
The April issues of Maximum PC and MacLife are currently on sale at a newsstand near you—assuming there is a newsstand near you. They’re the last print issues of these two venerable computer magazines, both of which date to 1996 (and were originally known, respectively, as Boot and MacAddict). Start
https://retrofun.pl/2023/12/18/was-basic-that-horrible-or-better/
Why did E. Dijkstra hate BASIC as mutiliating “beyond hope of regeneration”? It’s a pretty fascinating rabbit hole (as everything in computing is, if you stay curious).
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