Saturday, January 3, 2026

A Bounty of Netware drivers

Found a website that has an abundance of Netware drivers, and poking around a little, tons of nice old utilities for the DOS/Win 3.1/OS/2 era. Give it a look.

Thursday, January 1, 2026

HP-UX is officially End of Life

The UNIX wars continue to come to a slow and sad end.

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

A brief history of TPF

A really good walkthrough of how IBM invented ACP for the airlines, then generalized it into TPF to make a ton of money on high volume transaction clients.

Friday, October 31, 2025

Galois Fields for programmers

A little spooky math for your Halloween, if you want to up your game. Particularly useful for cryptograpy.

Sunday, June 15, 2025

Compiler backdoors!

If you remember the famous Ken Thompson Turing Award lecture where he demonstrated how easy it is to backdoor a C compiler, we have here the full code and an in depth look at how it works.

Volume 4, Fascicle 7

A new The Art of Computer Programming fascicle has just been released - let us begin to study it.

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

New features in Perl 5.40

Just in case you missed it, a list of new features in Perl 5.40. Nothing mind blowing but all appreciated.