Category: Computing

  • Abort, Retry, Fail?

    If, like me, you love history and really have an unhealthy love of wallowing in computing nostalgia, then you’ll love Abort Retry Fail. I stumbled across Bradford Morgan White’s website documenting the history of the computing industry a while back and immediately started losing time like a supporting character on the X-Files. Some highlights to…

  • In the Be-ginning…

    … there was BeOS In class today we had a great discussion on historical UNIX-like Operating Systems, particularly Jean-Louis Gassee’s BeOS. Which of course, we followed up with a discussion on Haiku, the BeOS-like Open Source OS. I’m really rooting for Haiku – I love this project! You can learn more about Haiku here: https://www.haiku-os.org