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UNIX Greybeard; sun!pugs; Student of History; Technology Storyteller; Programmer since 1967.
Founder - Ipsilon Networks(→ Nokia), Netillion(→ ⏚), Nuova Systems(→ Cisco), DriveScale(→ Twitter)

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C. Gordon Bell died May 17th. A giant in computing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Bell

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ARPAnet 1969 - Napkin from SRI/PARC/IEEE event today.

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RIP, Robert Dennard, inventor of . https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/technology/robert-dennard-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sk0.SpTx.HpE77vkDaJyC&smid=url-share

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If your wine is made by the founder of Cypress Semiconductors, does that make it a -ling wine? (Cypress built the first full-custom SPARC processor).

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Excellent article about the demise of Mobile Phones. I was there during the peak of fun in the year 2000. https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/05/microsoft_nokia_anniversary/

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WiFi is now a quarter of a century old

Matt Damon Grandpa GIF

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@thomasfuchs I saw 2Mbps 802.11 in use when visiting DEC in 1997.

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OTD 1974: TCP/IP is born! 50 years!
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1092259

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42 years ago today, I joined a tiny startup called . Read the story about how I got there: https://akapugs.blog/2022/05/03/674/

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NFS Must Die! (My upcoming NLUUG talk) https://nluug.nl/evenementen/nluug/voorjaarsconferentie-2024/talks/tom-lyon-why-nfs-must-die-and-how-to-get-beyond-file-sharing-in-the-cloud/

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TIL why the default Ethernet MTU is 1500!


https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2024/04/24/magic-numbers/

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@bsdphk @pixel In fact, the actual speed was 2.94Mbps, which means the 2^12 argument is invalid.

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OTD 1977: First UNIX port boots down under on Interdata 7/32. http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/bits/Interdata/32bit/unix/univWollongong_v6/miller.pdf

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A Dune of Spice? Arrakis or Fremont?

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OTD 1968: Applied Data Research is granted the "first software patent". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_Data_Research I had a part-time job at ADR for a few months around 1977.

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OTD 2010: completes acquisition of . https://nighthacks.com/Java%20Images/SunRIP/

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Born this day 1931: Fred Brooks, software/architecture pioneer.
"Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer."

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Pour one out for an 8-bit hero. https://www.hackster.io/news/zilog-calls-time-on-the-venerable-z80-discontinues-the-standalone-z84c00-cpu-family-723594464754

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OTD 1983: announces product line with 68010 processors, 4.2BSD UNIX, and 10Mb Ethernet. Until that time, it was 68000s with V7 UNIX and 3Mb Ethernet.

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Sun/Oracle hard drive spotted in "DiskMantler" video: https://garnerproducts.com/hubfs/Videos/DiskMantler-Garner.mp4

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OTD 1989: announces the 1. 35 years of pizza boxes with purple feet! https://www.1000bit.it/js/web/viewer.html?file=%2Fad%2Fbro%2Fsun%2Fsparc%2Fsparcstation1%2Epdf

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OTD 1976: Apple releases the Apple 1! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_I#:~:text=The%20Apple%20Computer%201%20(Apple,Apple%20Inc.)%20in%201976.

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Passed over a ski resort. June Mountain??

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Roll the dice.

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OTD 1982: My offer letter from . So much simpler then!

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OTD 1969: The first RFC! https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1

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Cool video about IBM's first production computer, the 701. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsdLxarwmTk Picture is a spare CRT memory element (Williams tube) from a 701.

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