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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.
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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...
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."
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 "\/"."
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.
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.
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...
LittleGP-30 - a LGP-30 Replica edit / delete
Aww, cute!
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."
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!
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tasty by Adam Sampson.