Post ATdbkWUXkY5GQqSTOS by StayBunn@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #ATdPAlTZMWYH1vBYPI by mjg59@nondeterministic.computer
2023-03-15T08:48:06Z
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I am absolutely in love with stories like this: https://www.os2museum.com/wp/a-wunderbar-story
(DIR) Post #ATdS9j88thUtKPMNAO by darkling@mstdn.social
2023-03-15T09:21:49Z
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@mjg59 That's great.It confirms once again that there are three things you should never see being made: laws, standards, and sausages.
(DIR) Post #ATdUNJlQCpIGcNLBeS by ersatzmaus@mastodon.social
2023-03-15T09:46:40Z
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@mjg59 A case of technical debt being reported as technical dirt.
(DIR) Post #ATdVROsrDCbhbrKTY0 by ewenmcneill@cloudisland.nz
2023-03-15T09:58:25Z
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@mjg59 OS2 Museum has several delightful bits of history in making early DOS / PC / OS2 bits work again. That wunderBAR story is particularly delightful!
(DIR) Post #ATdbkWUXkY5GQqSTOS by StayBunn@mastodon.social
2023-03-15T11:09:10Z
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@mjg59 What I want to know now is how we got from !/| being logical OR to ! now being used as NOT.
(DIR) Post #ATdo7xdaBg70jXd2si by kroeckx@techhub.social
2023-03-15T13:27:49Z
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@mjg59 Wikipedia suggest it might have been a broken line to distinguish | from l and I on a low resolution printer like a dot matrix.
(DIR) Post #ATeMCzhZKvxh1d45Z2 by wanderingincode@noc.social
2023-03-15T19:49:19Z
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@mjg59 a just so story can travel half way around the world before a well researched version even finds it's pants.
(DIR) Post #ATh3wgC2sxKiBeGqy8 by fraggle@octodon.social
2023-03-17T03:09:08Z
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@mjg59 the keyboard on my android phone has both. What?!?