Stories by lproven

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

Thoughts about the difference between European and American H/W and S/W design

“The Night Watch” by James Mickens: on the pain of systems programming [pdf]

ARM Inventors Acorn's “Dream Machine” (Circa 1994): The Galileo/TurboNutter

Does PHP have a future, or are 25 years enough?

Acorn Computer's OS strategy as of 1998 – interview with Richard Hallas

Was Acorn's RISC OS an under-appreciated pearl of OS design?

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