Stories by SeenNotHeard

How were large Unix installations managed in the 80s/90s?

A surprise with how '#!' handles its program argument in practice

The old church where one trillion webpages are being saved

There's No Rust on This Ironclad Kernel: An OS Written in Ada

Who was "Paul's Method" named after (a.k.a. the MOS 6502 RTS trick)?

Why Unix requires mount points

Univ. of Minnesota seeks photos to archive national parks signs before removal

Neuromancer is in production

I tried to hire a North Korean scammer [video]

The Plot of the Phantom, a text adventure that took 40 years to finish

Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux

What UI first distinguished radio and check buttons with circles and squares?

The initial version of the /etc./magic file used by the file(1) command

A graphical listing of all icons shipped in Win 3.1 PROGMAN.EXE and MORICONS.DLL

C64 User Logs into BBS After 39 Years with His Original SX-64

Did John Lennon think he was Jesus?

Did missing/corrupt dates in COBOL default to 1875-05-20?

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