Stories by lproven

Tales from the dawn of PC networking: cheapernet vs. broken string

Further thoughts on UEFI: how and why did we get it, anyway?

Notes towards a classification of UEFI firmware types

Apple Silicon and losing our legacy

Some ARM Mac owners will be in for a disappointment when they try to run Windows

RePalm from Dmitry.GR: reverse engineering PalmOS on ARM

The CDG5 project: reverse-engineering Apple's Classic macOS

Why was there no 32-bit 6502 or 64-bit 68000?

OberonScript: a safe scripting language and runtime for web apps (2007)

Next stable version of GNOME will be called GNOME 40

Modernising RISC OS in 2020: is there hope for the ancient ARM OS?

Pulling apart “What does a DevOps Engineer do?”

LIVEstep: Think Cocoa but FOSS. FreeBSD Live ISO with GNUstep Built with FuryBSD

Why progress estimates are difficult

Apple Platinum: arguably the acme of classic pre-compositing GUI design

Nyttig: A personal microserver for Linux, e.g. Rasbian

Good Ideas, Through the Looking Glass (2006) [pdf]

Oberon-2, a hi-performance alternative to C++ (1997)

The case against C (The ModulaTor, 1993)

Lama: an Algol-inspired language with S-expressions and first class functions

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