Two Stop Bits | Stories tagged "microsoft"

Windows xp designs (microsoft windows xp design retrospective) (marcuskwan.me)
1 point by bmonkey325 11 hours ago | discuss
Windows 95 was too fat to install itself so needed help from the slimmer 3.1 (microsoft windows win95 lore) (theregister.com)
1 point by bmonkey325 2 days ago | discuss
Microsoft’s pivotal Windows NT 3.5 release made it a serious contender (winnt microsoft) (tomshardware.com | ia)
4 points by starac 10 days ago | 2 comments
Unauthorized Windows/386 (microsoft unauthorized windows386 virtualization disassembly) (virtuallyfun.com | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 21 days ago | discuss
Microsoft publishes source to BASIC for 6502 (MIT license) (microsoft 6502 basic 8bit programming historical) (github.com | ia)
11 points by glhaynes 29 days ago | 3 comments
MS-DOS 3.10 source code for sale on eBay (1980s msdos microsoft code) (ebay.com | ia)
7 points by dweezul 33 days ago | 3 comments
Web Windows XP Simulator (windowsxp web simulator microsoft wildaf) (quenq.com | ia)
5 points by bmonkey325 42 days ago | discuss
Fifty Years of Microsoft Developer Tools (historical microsoft developer toolchain survey retrospective) (medium.com | ia)
5 points by bmonkey325 42 days ago | 3 comments
A tour of Microsoft's MacBU lab (2006) (historical powermac powerpc macosx microsoft) (davidweiss.blogspot.com | ia)
5 points by classichasclass 74 days ago | 3 comments
Windows 96 - The Windows That Never Was (windows microsoft win95 nashville) (timemachiner.io | ia)
1 point by bmonkey325 104 days ago | discuss
Programmers At Work: Bill Gates (1986) (1986) (microsoft) (programmersatwork.wordpress.com | ia)
8 points by ohjeez 116 days ago | 3 comments
What was the role of MS-DOS in Windows 95? (historical microsoft windows win95 msdos chen) (microsoft.com | ia)
14 points by bmonkey325 119 days ago | discuss
Bill Gates' Internet Tidal Wave Memo, 30 years ago today (microsoft internet internetexplorer windowsnt windows95 browser) (homeip.net | ia)
8 points by dfarquhar 129 days ago | 4 comments
Altair at 50: Remembering the first Personal Computer (micro altair mits microsoft basic roberts wozniak) (goto10retro.com | ia)
5 points by bmonkey325 152 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 | ia)
3 points by bmonkey325 157 days ago | discuss
Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and the Code That Started Microsoft (2025) (gates paulallen altair basic microsoft computing software) (thenewstack.io | ia)
3 points by bmonkey325 158 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 174 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 178 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 194 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 203 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 214 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 218 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 218 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 238 days ago | discuss
The time Bill Gates claimed he worked for $2/hour (altair basic microsoft) (homeip.net)
5 points by dfarquhar 240 days ago | 2 comments
A Rich Neighbor Named Xerox (apple mac xerox parc microsoft windows genesis) (folklore.org)
3 points by bmonkey325 241 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 242 days ago | 2 comments
The Microsoft KnowledgeBase Archive (microsoft kb help archive) (huntertur.net)
5 points by Lammy 256 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 262 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 268 days ago | 3 comments
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