Links 2018-10-29
Some computing history …
- The complete history of the IBM PC, part one: The deal of the century | Ars Technica
One could claim that the IBM PC was not really IBM’s first PC at all.
- The Observation Deck » The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris
Judging merely by its tombstone, the life of Solaris can be viewed as tragic: born out of wedlock between Sun and AT&T and dying at the hands of a remorseless corporate sociopath a quarter century later.
- Where Vim Came From
And yet Vim is also a mystery. […] Despite its ubiquity and importance, there doesn’t seem to be any kind of committee or organization that makes decisions about Vim.
- Linux Load Averages: Solving the Mystery
Load averages are an industry-critical metric – my company spends millions auto-scaling cloud instances based on them and other metrics – but on Linux there’s some mystery around them.
- Living on the Plateau
Most of us work in an environment of virtual infinities. There may be some contraints out there somewhere, but most of us know we will never bump into them. That’s what happens when you ride Moore’s trains through twenty-eight doublings.
- Wie erkläre ich es meinem Kind: Internet in der DDR / Blog / Privat – Lutz Donnerhacke
Ich hatte heute ein längeres Gespräch mit einer Journalistin, die fragen zur DDR-Top-level-domain “.dd” hatte. Das Gespräch war lang. Allerdings stellte sich schnell heraus, dass sie zu jung ist, um sich die Realität von vor 30 Jahren vorstellen zu können.