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13 @13@2137.social
· 1mo ago
Whatever Happened to the Computer of Tomorrow, Anyway? The Xerox Alto Story https://hackaday.com/2026/08/09/whatever-happened-to-the-computer-of-tomorrow-anyway-the-xerox-alto-story/ #Retrocomputing #Alto #Computerhistory #Xeroxalto #Xeroxparc
Whatever Happened To The Computer Of Tomorrow, Anyway? The Xerox Alto Story
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Whatever Happened To The Computer Of Tomorrow, Anyway? The Xerox Alto Story

You’ve almost certainly heard of the Xerox Alto, the machine that pioneered the desktop-mouse-keyboard interface and inspired Steve Jobs to produce the Apple Lisa and Macintosh computers. It …

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MediaBoxent @MediaBoxent@mastodon.social
· 2mo ago
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What would computing look like today if Amiga had won? Drop your thoughts below! 👇 #VintageComputing #ComputerHistory #1990sTech #Gaming #OperatingSystems
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Silicium @occitel@mastodon.social
· 2mo ago
Silicium vous a présenté hier le terminal ADDS Regent, voici la machine qu’il faut pour l’exploiter. L'IMS 8000 est un beau parallélépipède avec deux lecteurs 8" de 1,6 Mo. Pas pour jouer... pour travailler sérieusement. Enfin... jusqu'à ce qu'un développeur lance une compilation COBOL juste avant le café. ☕💾 As-tu pratiqué le CP/M ? A lire : https://www.silicium.org/index.php/catalogue/us/ims-8000 #RetroComputing #CPM #Z80 #S100 #VintageComputer #IndustrialMicroSystems #ComputerHistory #Silicium
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GamleBerrefjord @GamleBerrefjord@social.vivaldi.net
· 2mo ago
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@occitel@mastodon.social My Late 1970'ies CP/M workhorse outfit #Norway #ComputerHistory
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Bodling @Bodling@deacon.social
· 2mo ago
Roger Summit, who invented an early online search service, named "Dialog" has died at age 95. You remember Dialog, don't you? You'd have a research question. So you'd go talk to the librarian who has been trained on how to formulate efficient search queries. (You need them to be efficient because you paid by the search. Or was it by the number of hits you got?) The librarian would do all the Boolean operator magic and check the punctuation, then press "Enter." And, yes, it was amazingly fast. But you'd likely need to wait until tomorrow to get your printed out results because the computer terminal was on a shared dial-up connection, and because your request was in a queue with other requests. These were the good old days. Nothing artificial about the intelligence of those librarians, either. #ComputerHistory #InformationScience #Librarians #Libraries #Dialog #Computers #Databases
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Chewie @chewie@mammut.gogreenit.net
· 5mo ago
The Bring Your Own Bottle night is on again this Saturday 2nd May at the ⁨#Derby⁩ Computer #Museum: https://www.derbycomputermuseum.co.uk/byob-retro-gaming-nights Come and play on loads of home computers and consoles with friends, and listen to some great music from the '90s on ⁨#vinyl⁩ See you there! 💻 🖥️ 🕹️ 🎮 💽 🖱️ 💿 ⁨#RetroGaming⁩ ⁨#RetroComputing⁩ ⁨#ComputerHistory⁩ ⁨#GamingHistory⁩
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JdeBP @JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk
· 7mo ago
Replying to on mastodon.bsd.cafe
@kaveman@mastodon.bsd.cafe Yes. I was mentioning this to @cks@mastodon.social the other day. https://tty0.social/@JdeBP/116030855863806427 I think that it came out in the early 1990s. The copyright dates in the source uniformly say 1983, which would make OpenWatcom vi the earliest vi clone on record (pre-dating #STEVIE by 4 years). However, they say this uniformly, even for its OS/2 and Windows NT parts, which couldn't have existed in 1983. And 1983 pre-dates even Waterloo C. So I suspect some Sybase lawyer has lied in these copyright declarations. Watcom had a non-vi multi-window and menus TUI editor for DOS named wbed.exe at one point. #Watcom #OpenWatcom #vi #retrocomputing #ComputerHistory
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JdeBP @JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk
· 7mo ago
Replying to on mastodon.bsd.cafe
@gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe I mentioned Guckes's list not having Heirloom vi in that other thread. I haven't thought about these in years, and they are an understandable additional blind spot in Guckes's list; but the MKS Toolkit had a vi, as did Interix. https://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man1/vi.1.asp The :open test indicates that vi in the MKS Toolkit was actual Joy+Horton vi. #Interix (at least according to an old Scott Mueller book) had both vi and nvi, so I wouldn't be surprised if that turned out to have been Bostic #nvi by two names. As I recall, Central Point PC Tools, the Norton Utilities, and the Graham Utilities had text editors of varying degrees but did not have vi. @cks@mastodon.social#vi #ComputerHistory #retrocomputing
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JdeBP @JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk
· 7mo ago
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@cks@mastodon.social OpenWatcom vi is source available. https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/116052015020764901 Ritter's Heirloom #vi is in #FreeBSD ports today, coming from the same place that it has for a long time. https://freshports.org/editors/2bsd-vi/ It was dropped from #ArchLinux because it did not compile and hadn't changed in 20 years. Ironically, this is because the (GNU) C language had changed, and it has to nowadays be compiled forcing an older GNU C language version. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2285124#p2285124 Several people have independently discovered the Makefile patch that gets it to build on #Debian and the like. https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=629775 https://gist.github.com/cwfoo/01abac5c39f398b7e7b16a2b87aa518b #elvis, the precursor to #nvi, is packaged for both #NetBSD/#pkgsrc and #OpenBSD. https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/editors/elvis/index.html https://github.com/openbsd/ports/tree/master/editors/elvis #retrocomputing #ComputerHistory #Watcom #OpenWatcom
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@JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk
On #Illumos, Jov vi is in /usr/src/cmd/vi: https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/tree/master/usr/src/cmd/vi On #OpenBSD, Bostic #nvi is in /usr/src/usr.bin/vi/vi; #NetBSD having it in /usr/src/external/bsd/nvi; and #FreeBSD in /usr/src/contrib/nvi: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/tree/main/contrib/nvi FreeBSD has an nvi2 in ports: https://freshports.org/editors/nvi2/ OpenBSD has elvis in ports: https://github.com/openbsd/ports/blob/master/editors/elvis/pkg/DESCR Ritter's Heirloom vi is on SourceForge: https://ex-vi.sourceforge.net STEVIE was posted to comp.sources.unix in 1988: https://sources.vsta.org/comp.sources.unix/volume15/stevie/ Unfortunately, Sven Guckes's vi Clones WWW site was never completed with some of this, notably lacking Heirloom vi, for example. https://guckes.net/vi/clones.html But it does mention oft-overlooked commercial clones such as Watcom's vi, a from-scratch implementation started in 1983 that is also now source-available: https://github.com/open-watcom/owp4v1copy/tree/master/bld/vi #vi #retrocomputing #ComputerHistory #STEVIE #elvis #VIM #NeoVIM #Watcom #OpenWatcom
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JdeBP: "On #Illumos, Joy vi is in /usr/src/cmd/vi: https…" - Mastodon App UK

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JdeBP @JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk
· 7mo ago
Replying to on hachyderm.io
@davefischer@hachyderm.io I'm guessing that that was Ritter's Heirloom vi. https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/116052015020764901 There are discussions in an Arch Linux forum of its package being removed because it hadn't changed in two decades and the (GNU flavoured) C language had. It's in the #FreeBSD ports collection; and several people have independently come up with the Makefile patch that gets it to build on Debian Linux. https://freshports.org/editors/2bsd-vi/ #vi #retrocomputing #ComputerHistory #gcc #ArchLinux
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@JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk
On #Illumos, Jov vi is in /usr/src/cmd/vi: https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/tree/master/usr/src/cmd/vi On #OpenBSD, Bostic #nvi is in /usr/src/usr.bin/vi/vi; #NetBSD having it in /usr/src/external/bsd/nvi; and #FreeBSD in /usr/src/contrib/nvi: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/tree/main/contrib/nvi FreeBSD has an nvi2 in ports: https://freshports.org/editors/nvi2/ OpenBSD has elvis in ports: https://github.com/openbsd/ports/blob/master/editors/elvis/pkg/DESCR Ritter's Heirloom vi is on SourceForge: https://ex-vi.sourceforge.net STEVIE was posted to comp.sources.unix in 1988: https://sources.vsta.org/comp.sources.unix/volume15/stevie/ Unfortunately, Sven Guckes's vi Clones WWW site was never completed with some of this, notably lacking Heirloom vi, for example. https://guckes.net/vi/clones.html But it does mention oft-overlooked commercial clones such as Watcom's vi, a from-scratch implementation started in 1983 that is also now source-available: https://github.com/open-watcom/owp4v1copy/tree/master/bld/vi #vi #retrocomputing #ComputerHistory #STEVIE #elvis #VIM #NeoVIM #Watcom #OpenWatcom
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JdeBP: "On #Illumos, Joy vi is in /usr/src/cmd/vi: https…" - Mastodon App UK

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JdeBP @JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk
· 7mo ago
Replying to on mastodonapp.uk
On #Illumos, Jov vi is in /usr/src/cmd/vi: https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/tree/master/usr/src/cmd/vi On #OpenBSD, Bostic #nvi is in /usr/src/usr.bin/vi/vi; #NetBSD having it in /usr/src/external/bsd/nvi; and #FreeBSD in /usr/src/contrib/nvi: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/tree/main/contrib/nvi FreeBSD has an nvi2 in ports: https://freshports.org/editors/nvi2/ OpenBSD has elvis in ports: https://github.com/openbsd/ports/blob/master/editors/elvis/pkg/DESCR Ritter's Heirloom vi is on SourceForge: https://ex-vi.sourceforge.net STEVIE was posted to comp.sources.unix in 1988: https://sources.vsta.org/comp.sources.unix/volume15/stevie/ Unfortunately, Sven Guckes's vi Clones WWW site was never completed with some of this, notably lacking Heirloom vi, for example. https://guckes.net/vi/clones.html But it does mention oft-overlooked commercial clones such as Watcom's vi, a from-scratch implementation started in 1983 that is also now source-available: https://github.com/open-watcom/owp4v1copy/tree/master/bld/vi #vi #retrocomputing #ComputerHistory #STEVIE #elvis #VIM #NeoVIM #Watcom #OpenWatcom
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illumos-gate/usr/src/cmd/vi at master · illumos/illumos-gate

An open-source Unix operating system -- this is a read-only mirror of the official repository at https://code.illumos.org/plugins/gitiles/illumos-gate - illumos/illumos-gate

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