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NCommander's Tech Corner
Personal blog · casadevall.pro/articlessystemshistory
NCommander's Tech Corner is a personal blog at casadevall.pro about systems and history. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
NCommander's Tech Corner is linked for its retro computing and software history articles, including an article on the origins of SQLite's bytecode and an exploration of Windows for Workgroups. The comments are bare links with little comment on the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
NCommander's tech write-ups, real life adventures, and more
What Hacker News says?
They called it p-code at the time. The purpose was (purported) to simplify the porting between architectures. https://casadevall.pro/articles/2020/11/compiling-word-for-w...
Comment linking /articles/2020/11/compiling-word-for-windows-from-os/2-1.2/
on “Why SQLite Uses Bytecode”Submitted Examining Windows 1.0 Hello.c – 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI was installing laptops with windows 3.11 for workgroups in the 90s to get the tcpip stack. https://casadevall.pro/articles/2020/05/exploring-windows-fo...
Comment linking /articles/2020/05/exploring-windows-for-workgroups-3.11-early-90s-networking/
on “The 40-Year-Old Cable Modem (a NABU network modem teardown) [video]”Submitted Exploring IBM Graphical File System (1984) as a story · 2 points
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