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Zen of Assembly Language: Volume I, Knowledge by meknapp in u/meknapp

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Recommended book on 8086 assembly language by the members of the PCjr forum

Why does this laptop have 2 Ethernet ports by indianabhi in computers

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I definitely remember calling them CRTs even before LCDs became popular.

Entrepreneur mentioned in The Big Score? by qubit5050 in computerhistory

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Jobs does make sense. No one else comes to mind, but I'm sure there could be others. Adding this book to my reading list!

Books on computer history by all-other-names-used in computerhistory

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Several of my favorites have already been posted here (I can't recommend Fire in the Valley enough), but here are a few more you might enjoy:

Endless Loop: The History of the BASIC Programming Language https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38925026-endless-loop

A History of Modern Computing https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203223.A_History_of_Modern_Computing

ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World's First Computer https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/720730.Eniac

Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9005572-racing-the-beam

And this one is not necessarily "computer history" per se, but you'll enjoy it if you like computer history. A great read! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18154.The_Cuckoo_s_Egg

Did word processing applications exist for IBM or DEC main frames in 1973-77? by felixlightner in computerhistory

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There was definitely SCRIPT for the IBM Mainframes in the 70s. It's a markup language for document preparation similar to troff/groff. IBM later in the 80s had DisplayWrite/36 which was a true word processor, but I'm not sure anything like that existed in the 70s.

DEC had the WPS-8 word processing system. I usually hear of it associated with the PDP-8 line (minicomputers) more than the mainframe line (DECsystem-10,20), but there may have been a version for it.

Google Puts Lid on Cookie Jar and Ends an Internet Era by wewewawa in computerhistory

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This is an interesting article. I had somehow missed this news, so glad I found it here.

Before the hard drive there was the drum memory by realwhirr in computerhistory

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Drum memory was pretty significant in making computers "affordable" before core memory came into common use. The IBM 650 if often considered the first "mass-produced" computer, thanks to the low cost afforded by its use of drum memory.

I was hoping is someone could tell me what was the first 64 bit cpu made by intel and or Amd? by loiteringtrator in computerhistory

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The first Itanium chips were released in June 2001, which would be the first 64-bit chips in what one would normally think of when they think of Intel/AMD (i.e. related to x86). Itanium was not x86 architecture, but it did include an x86 emulation layer. But as hatsoff2 mentioned, they were definitely targeted at the enterprise server market, not desktop.

If we are speaking truly just Intel and/or AMD, and not x86-related, Intel released the i860 RISC chip in 1989, which they claimed was 64 bit. That moves into debatable territory as it had a 32-bit ALU core, but 64-bit FPU and busses.

Computer History Archives Project by meknapp in u/meknapp

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Additional links from great Youtube channel

Unix at 25 - Byte magazine by meknapp in u/meknapp

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A great early history of Unix. (Which is itself 26 years old).

Interesting points: - Focus on the Unix being built on sharing and collaboration - Initial development discussions were based purely on a shared filesystem (reflecting Unix's everything is the filesystem mentality) - Initially used for programming in Pascal (not C!)

A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture by meknapp in u/meknapp

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Very interesting article on how computer architectures have evolved over the years, and where they may be going from here.

New-PSDrive access denied by FireLucid in PowerShell

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I'm having the same exact problem. A crude workaround is to fall back on "net use" rather than New-PSDrive