silicon transistors — long awaited by the electronics industry — are finally out of the laboratory and on the market (1954) (lemmy.ml)
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…substack.com/…/orange-micros-orangepc
I really don’t understand how complex programs like compilers and browsers have come to an existence....
In the last 17 minutes of this video from 2019 you can hear Ken Thompson talk about chess computers and this incident in particular.
Highly interesting read by Ken Shirriff
With 3.1 the beginning of computer sales as we know it basically started. In that time IBM had basically full market control.
He also has some other good videos and tutorials that are worth checking.