Stories by lproven

Microsoft's Gordon Letwin on “What's happening to OS/2” (1995)

The Compose key: How to type foreign languages without looking stuff up

OK, so what is this Wayland thing, anyway?

Hitachi bundled BeOS in 1999, but Microsoft stopped it installing a bootloader

Zinc: Ubuntu LTS, with XFCE, and both Snap and Flatpak replaced with deb-get

Red Hat Is Not Linux (2000)

An Architectural Overview of QNX (1992) [pdf]

Forester project delivers bare metal remote provisioning to Fedora

Building an IBM 3270 terminal controller

Converter to plug an IBM 5250-compatible terminal to a Linux PC via USB

Why you might want an email client in the era of webmail

GNUstep Desktop (GSDE) is modern NeXT/OpenStep-like Linux desktop environment

The AARD Code and DR DOS (2021)

Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of classic Mac OS

First ever 64-bit version of Windows rediscovered and a C compiler for it too

Steve Jobs and the actually usable computer (2011)

RISC on a Chip: David Patterson and Berkeley RISC-I

The GNU project nearly adopted the BSD kernel in 1991, before Linux was created

Had enough of Android? First 'Focal' based Ubuntu Touch is out

OS/380: a family of free 31-bit mainframe OSes incl. MVS/380, VM/380 and VSE/38

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