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New comment by whobre in "Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?"

whobre — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 22:00:08 +0000

Raymond rocks!

New comment by whobre in "Logo Programming"

whobre — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:51:58 +0000

Dr Logo: https://winworldpc.com/product/dr-logo/1x

New comment by whobre in "What will our economic future look like?"

whobre — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:48:51 +0000

And honestly that’s the only real answer. Predicting future is a fool’s errand.

New comment by whobre in "Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982"

whobre — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:20:03 +0000

Hey, but we had a real cpu in the Speccy - not the joke that 6502 was!

Ah, who am I kidding? Of course c64 was better…

New comment by whobre in "HelloAssembly: The smallest possible complete Windows application (2021)"

whobre — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:08:13 +0000

Also Raymond Chen

New comment by whobre in "Z80 – The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive (2021)"

whobre — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:25:33 +0000

Nice! This one is also being produced: https://retrogamecoders.com/agon-light-first-impressions/

New comment by whobre in "Happy 45th Birthday to the IBM PC and Model F/XT"

whobre — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:11:13 +0000

There was an industry standard before IBM PC, based on Z80 S100 and CP/M

The Road to MS-DOS 2.0

whobre — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:57:56 +0000

Article URL: https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/the-road-to-ms-dos-2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49269966

Points: 109

# Comments: 58

New comment by whobre in "How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?"

whobre — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:01:45 +0000

Still have no idea what that means…

New comment by whobre in "The IBM PC, Part 1: Arrival"

whobre — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:37:43 +0000

Not bad, but I like this one better: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/06/ibm-pc-history-part-...

And specifically for the IBM choosing Microsoft: https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/why-ibm-turned-to-m...

New comment by whobre in "Starlink from 1984"

whobre — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:27:54 +0000

Actually it was released in 1989. People’s memories are a funny thing…

New comment by whobre in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

whobre — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 13:26:18 +0000

The worst OS except for all the others.

New comment by whobre in "Starlink from 1984"

whobre — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 11:56:16 +0000

You are describing MS-DOS. As article states, this used DRI's Concurrent DOS, which was basically rebranded MP/M-86 with a basic MS-DOS compatibility layer.

More about Concurrent DOS, eg here: https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/i/196574463/quest-for...

Banning AI in Law School: We've Seen This Before

whobre — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:18:07 +0000

Article URL: https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/240-banning-ai-in-law-school-weve

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48875466

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by whobre in "Zeal 8-Bit Computer"

whobre — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:55:14 +0000

I like it! Is it still being produced given that Z80 has been discontinued?

New comment by whobre in "Software, from First Principles"

whobre — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 13:34:37 +0000

This is the book to read if you are interested in the topic: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44882.Code

The Peak and Collapse of Digital Research

whobre — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:32:49 +0000

Article URL: https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/the-peak-and-collapse-of-digital

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48765564

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by whobre in "What happened after the Roman Empire ceased to be in 476?"

whobre — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:53:23 +0000

Roman Empire did not "ceased to be" in 476; all it happened that year was that an usurper was deposed.

New comment by whobre in ""I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI""

whobre — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:03:00 +0000

By now, the dude must have developed something ridiculously successful and got filthy rich /s

New comment by whobre in "CP/M-86 & MS-DOS Cross Development Environment"

whobre — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:44:04 +0000

Or concurrent cp/m?