Stories by whobre

Mac Neo and my afternoon of reflection and melancholy

Gary Kildall, Bill Gates and the "Gentleman's Agreement"

AArch64 Bitfield Move (BFM) Instruction

They Think

Death of Software. Nah

An Old-School Introduction to Position Independent Code

The Spherical Cows of Programming

MicroTimes' Interview with Doug and Larry Michels from SCO (1987)

When the IBM PC Came to Town

Counting Leading Zeros in a Byte

Alan Sugar of Amstrad Speaks to Practical Computing (1985)

If writing is thinking then what happens if AI is doing the writing and reading?

The Sinclair ZX Spectrum Next Issue 3 Is Coming to Kickstarter This Saturday

A Tale of Two Red-Bearded Visionaries

From Typewriters to Transformers: AI Is Just the Next Tools Abstraction

Birth of 86-DOS

Remembering MS-DOS 5.0

The Curious Case of Jupiter Ace

Disassembly with GDB

Could DOS Have Been a Scaled-Down Version of Xenix?