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chessprogramming - home edit / delete

Exactly what it says on the tin. Lots of useful historical information here; I came looking for details about MacHack.

by ats ... to ai chess games its retrocomputing ... on 05 May 2018

Chess Computer UK edit / delete

From the earliest ones to the present. It's nice to see that people are now making replacement CPU boards for the older systems so you can use a more modern chess engine...

by ats ... to chess electronics games retrocomputing ... on 22 April 2018

Stretch-ing Is Great Exercise: It Gets You in Shape to Win - IEEE Journals & Magazine edit / delete

Fred Brooks on the IBM Stretch project, which pioneered pipelining, 8-byte bytes, multihead hard disks, and various other things we take for granted today. I particularly liked this bit about ECC memory: "The contract required that Stretch run for a month with better than 90% availability. The machine chugged along great and was hovering right above the 90% line when one bit driver, or else one sense amplifier, failed completely! For the rest of the acceptance test, the IBM team just ran it the way it was. There was not time to stop and fix it; stopping would have ruined the statistics. So the Stretch ran along to the end of the month single-error correcting every memory access from that box."

by ats ... to architecture ecc history ibm pipelining retrocomputing stretch ... on 16 February 2018

How ASCII Got Its Backslash edit / delete

Short answer: "It enabled the ALGOL "and" to be "/\" and the "or" to be "\/"."

by ats ... to algol ascii character history retrocomputing text ... on 14 February 2018

Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP), by C. A. R. Hoare (PDF Version) edit / delete

Online version of Tony Hoare's classic book.

by ats ... to concurrency csp ... on 12 February 2018

Notes on the History of Fork and Join - IEEE Journals & Magazine edit / delete

The terms are surprisingly old -- there's a 1963 paper with a diagram that's pretty much what's on my CMP202 slides.

by ats ... to concurrent fork history parallel retrocomputing ... on 02 February 2018

Food History Jottings: Some Early Bakewell Pudding Recipes edit / delete

It appears that the Bakewell pudding rapidly achieved international fame...

by ats ... to bakewell cooking food pudding ... on 28 January 2018

LittleGP-30 - a LGP-30 Replica edit / delete

Aww, cute!

by ats ... to electronics emulation lgp30 retrocomputing ... on 20 January 2018

CMOC - 6809 cross-compiler for a C-like language edit / delete

"CMOC is a 6809-generating cross-compiler for a subset of the C language."

by ats ... to 6809 c coco compiler cross-compiler dragon retrocomputing ... on 20 January 2018

The Oblique Strategies Web Site edit / delete

All the editions of the deck, with the differences between them. Very cool!

by ats ... to amusements art eno music ... on 19 January 2018