Stories by lproven

The historical significance of DEC and the PDP-7, -8, -11 and VAX

Mankind is a monkey with its hand in a trap, & legacy OSes are among the bait

Oberon, Plan 9 and Inferno: None of These Are Unix

Exploring Alternative Operating Systems: Building Inferno Disk Images

Borland Software Craftsmanship: A New Look at Process, Quality and Productivity

You can legally get and run WordPerfect for free

The Zigzag DB and visualization system: The true generalization of structure

MS-DOS' drive-letter allocation process is more complex than you might think

Ubuntu 20.10 won't install on PCs in legacy-BIOS mode unless there's a UEFI ESP

Coherent (small Unix-like for x86-16 and x86-32) source code

Squeak: A Free Smalltalk System – On RISC OS

What was the difference between Windows, Windows/286 and Windows/386?

Catalog of resources related with Oberon programming language

Why Put Menu Bars There? A Quiz Designed to Give You Fitts (Ask Tog, Feb '99)

Starting Over: A FOSS proposal for a new type of OS for a new type of computer

Comparing taskbars and desktop panels, & musing on the One True Linux Way

Tablet manufacturers let us all down, or, why Windows 8 flopped

Reflections on being both right and wrong about smartphones, 13 years ago

Complete IBM PC DOS 2000 virtual hard disk image for VirtualBox

Bell's law of computer classes: how new computer types evolve, thrive and die

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