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Windows 96 - The Windows That Never Was (windows microsoft win95 nashville) (timemachiner.io)
1 point by bmonkey325 7 days ago | discuss
Programmers At Work: Bill Gates (1986) (1986) (microsoft) (programmersatwork.wordpress.com)
8 points by ohjeez 19 days ago | 3 comments
What was the role of MS-DOS in Windows 95? (historical microsoft windows win95 msdos chen) (microsoft.com)
14 points by bmonkey325 22 days ago | discuss
Bill Gates' Internet Tidal Wave Memo, 30 years ago today (microsoft internet internetexplorer windowsnt windows95 browser) (homeip.net)
8 points by dfarquhar 32 days ago | 4 comments
Altair at 50: Remembering the first Personal Computer (micro altair mits microsoft basic roberts wozniak) (goto10retro.com)
5 points by bmonkey325 55 days ago | discuss
The first machine that ran DOS (and without the 640kB barrier) (cpu seattle computer 8086 bus msdos paterson microsoft) (dosmandrivel.blogspot.com)
3 points by bmonkey325 61 days ago | discuss
Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and the Code That Started Microsoft (2025) (gates paulallen altair basic microsoft computing software) (thenewstack.io)
3 points by bmonkey325 61 days ago | discuss
Microsoft's Win 95 startup sound immortalized in the Library of Congress (2025) (historical microsoft win95 startup sound) (tomshardware.com | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 77 days ago | 1 comment
I'm manually transcribing the AltairBASIC source, ten lines a day starting today (altair microsoft gates) (ycombinator.com | ia)
3 points by qingcharles 81 days ago | discuss
Technical analyses of Free-X’s “Bert & Ernie” XBOX Dashboard font exploit (2003) (historical microsoft xbox font exploit homebrew) (sega-dc.de | ia)
4 points by Lammy 97 days ago | 1 comment
Burger King sells Windows 7 Whoppers as Microsoft begins Guru training (2009) (historical burgerking microsoft windows7 launch promotion weird) (appleinsider.com | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 107 days ago | discuss
Could DOS Have Been a Scaled-Down Version of Xenix? (2025) (msdos cpm xenix ibmpc 8086 microsoft unix) (substack.com)
1 point by bmonkey325 117 days ago | discuss
National Museum of American History : Microsoft Windows NT OS/2 Design Workbook (collecting smithsonian microsoft windowsnt design book photo) (si.edu)
1 point by bmonkey325 121 days ago | 1 comment
Windows NT [History, Components, Subsystems, Design, FS, Net, API] [pdf] (1999) (historical windows microsoft nt os) (ucsc.edu)
1 point by bmonkey325 121 days ago | discuss
How Paul Allen and Bill Gates landed on the idea for Microsoft (2025) (historical microsoft allen gates genesis origin) (fortune.com)
1 point by bmonkey325 141 days ago | discuss
The time Bill Gates claimed he worked for $2/hour (altair basic microsoft) (homeip.net)
5 points by dfarquhar 143 days ago | 2 comments
A Rich Neighbor Named Xerox (apple mac xerox parc microsoft windows genesis) (folklore.org)
3 points by bmonkey325 144 days ago | 1 comment
Max 10 Beautifully Designed 1980's Sony Computers That Never Quite Delivered (1980s historical sony design review msx microsoft) (substack.com | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 145 days ago | 2 comments
The Microsoft KnowledgeBase Archive (microsoft kb help archive) (huntertur.net)
5 points by Lammy 160 days ago | 2 comments
Windows 95 and a Bizarre Case of Font Drag and Drop (microsoft win95 font bug shell feature documentation) (marnetto.net)
2 points by bmonkey325 165 days ago | discuss
Microsoft Bob turns 30 today. It was terrible and I'm sorry I mentioned it. (gates bob microsoft windows x86) (homeip.net | ia)
7 points by dfarquhar 171 days ago | 3 comments
How the OS/2 flop went on to shape modern software (historical os2 ibm microsoft speculative review) (theregister.com)
1 point by bmonkey325 172 days ago | discuss
Windows 2: Final Fantasy of operating systems (windows microsoft gui) (ninakalinina.com | ia)
9 points by amoroso 177 days ago | 12 comments
Happy New Year! (jingle bean with Windows XP critical error sound) (microsoft jinglebells windowxp critical error sound music) (youtube.com)
2 points by bmonkey325 178 days ago | discuss
Windows 95 and Early 80386 CPUs (microsoft windows win95 intel 386 bug disassembly) (pcjs.org)
4 points by Lammy 180 days ago | 1 comment
Hardware Security Exploit Research - XBOX 360 (xbox xbox360 microsoft security exploit research) (github.com | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 189 days ago | discuss
Visual Basic 6 rebuilt in C# – complete with form designer and IDE in browser (microsoft visual basic vb6 csharp ide) (ycombinator.com | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 228 days ago | discuss
How Ed Roberts created the personal computer industry—and then walked away (gates altair edroberts pc stevewozniak microsoft basic) (every.to | ia)
6 points by bmonkey325 239 days ago | 5 comments
Microsoft LISP (lisp mulisp microsoft msdos) (edm2.com | ia)
4 points by bmonkey325 265 days ago | discuss
Microsoft backs down over rivals' Vista access (2006) (microsoft vista security api) (archive.org | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 333 days ago | 1 comment
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