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I work for Internet Archive developing scalable solutions for the Petabox infrastructure.

I also write novels: j-nelson.net

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What are the major technical difference between Multics and Unix?
Jul 20, 2020
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What made some 8-bit BASIC interpreters especially slow?
Sep 14, 2022
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How did Atari lose money on home computers?
Feb 12, 2020
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Is there any hard data about type-in programs in the 80s?
Dec 31, 2021
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How was the first release of Java (JDK 1.0) used?
Oct 4, 2022
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Why was Wireplay "faster and more reliable" than dial-up Internet, since they both used the same hardware?
Feb 2, 2022
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When connecting to the Internet via Dial-Up, why did ISPs require a username/password to authenticate the session?
Apr 10, 2020
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What languages are better fit for generating efficient code for popular 8-bit CPU's than C?
May 29, 2020
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Why did the MS-DOS API choose software interrupts for its interface?
Feb 25, 2020
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How can I access/use memory outside of the standard 1 MB address range of MS-DOS?
Mar 21, 2020
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How do I avoid checking for nulls in Java?
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