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2026
January
- 25 - Migrating from Jekyll to a custom static site generator
- 25 - dex - directory comparison tool in Go
2025
November
October
- 20 - Bit by Bit - E9.2 - Assembly Lines ch. 6 cont. - keys and strobing
- 20 - Bit by Bit - E9.1 - Assembly Lines ch. 6 - I/O Using the Monitor and Keyboard
- 18 - Bit by Bit - E8 - Assembly Lines ch 5. More Loops and Paddling Around
- 18 - Bit by Bit - E7 - Merlin 8 - Full Screen Editing
- 18 - Bit by Bit - E6 - Bits in Bits Out
- 18 - Bit by Bit - E5 - Escape Mode
- 11 - Bit by Bit - E4 - Looping
- 11 - Bit by Bit - E3 - Assemblers
- 11 - Bit by Bit - E2 - Getting Started
- 10 - Bit by Bit - Exploring Low-Level Programming on the Apple IIe
September
June
2024
September
August
May
2023
December
July
- 31 - MACLISP in ITS running on an emulated PDP-10
- 31 - Franz LISP Opus 32 in 3BSD running on an emulated VAX 780
- 30 - pdp1-lisp running on an emulated PDP-1
- 24 - Rob Pike's LISP 1.5 in Go running on Debian 12
- 24 - Schemes, LISPs, and Lambda
- 24 - LISP 1.5 running on an emulated IBM 7094
- 15 - Installing and Using Research Unix Version 7 on the OpenSIMH PDP-11 Emulator
June
February
January
- 31 - Xlib basics
- 24 - Setting up for X-Windows Development on MacOS
- 23 - Site Update for Monday, January 23, 2023
- 23 - Enabling Mermaid in Jekyll without a Plugin
- 23 - Merging binary files in Fossil - to do or not to do?
- 16 - Installing and running DragonFly BSD 6.4
- 07 - Installing and running Fossil on TrueNAS Core
2022
December
- 30 - Sculpt 22.10 - A Truly Alternative OS
- 30 - Building Sculpt 22.10 on Debian 11.6 Bullseye without a Desktop
- 29 - Building Sculpt 22.10 on Debian 11.6 Bullseye
- 15 - Warren Toomey Awarded 2022 USENIX Flame
- 15 - dircmp.py - a plan to improve and extend
- 08 - Site Update for Thursday, December 8, 2022
- 05 - Creating a github pages jekyll minima themed site with pagination
- 03 - Site Update for December 3, 2022
- 02 - Site Update for December 2, 2022
- 01 - Site Update for December 1, 2022
November
October
- 29 - Installing and Using Research Unix Version 7 in the OpenSIMH PDP-11/45 and 11/70 Emulators 3.1
- 28 - Installing and Using Research Unix Version 7 in the OpenSIMH PDP-11/45 and 11/70 Emulators 3.0
- 26 - Notoriously S.L.O.W BASIC
- 23 - model-100-bibliography
- 22 - Long Road Back to the Tandy TRS-80 Model 100
- 19 - Installing and Using Unix V6 in the Open SIMH PDP-11 Emulator
July
June
- 29 - Ohm's Law Power Wheel Made Simple and Rational
- 09 - Using an el-cheapo logic analyser to detect address bus activity
- 09 - Nyquist what?! Gobsmacked by Sampling Frequency
- 08 - PAL-1 Loading MOS Paper Tape to RAM
- 08 - PAL-1 Entering a Program via Serial Port
- 08 - PAL-1 Entering a Program at the Keypad
- 07 - PAL-1 Resources A Curated List
- 07 - PAL-1 Getting Started
- 06 - Updated and expanded Lions v6 source v1.4
- 06 - PAL-1 A KIM-1 replica
February
- 26 - Tweaked version of Lions for Printing and Viewing
- 08 - Installing and Using Research Unix Version 7 in the SIMH PDP-11/45 and 11/70 Emulators 2.1
- 03 - Enabling the DZ in v7
- 03 - ratfor and Kernighan and Plaugers Software Tools
January
2021
December
March
February
2020
October
September
- 20 - freebsd 2020 ep 7 all about manpages
- 18 - freebsd 2020 ep 6 system programming who command
- 15 - freebsd 2020 ep 5 playing with zfs and zfs snapshots
- 13 - freebsd 2020 ep 4 updating your freebsd 12.1 system safely with zfs boot environments
August
- 06 - Installing freebsd 8.4 to work with Kongs driver book
- 05 - freebsd 2020 ep 3 installing plasma on freebsd 12.1 on virtualbox 6.1
- 05 - freebsd 2020 ep 2 freebsd 12.1 on virtualbox with xorg twm and lumina
- 05 - freebsd 2020 ep 1a freebsd 12.1 on virtualbox 6.1 the short version
- 03 - freebsd 2020 ep 1 installing freebsd 12.1 on virtualbox 6.1 the long version
July
- 28 - Mounting tar files in v7
- 24 - Fonts and Colours in xterm
- 22 - How to forward mail from root to user
- 21 - How to Monitor Battery Life and Sleep on FreeBSD 12.1
- 21 - Using a Mac's xterm as a remote Tektronics display for a FreeBSD 12.1 Server
- 21 - Turn off that pesky Visual Mode mouse integration in VIM
- 21 - Setting up XDM on FreeBSD 12.1
2018
August
July
April
March
- 06 - Installing Centos 5.11 with-2.6.17.8 kernel
- 04 - Installing Centos 5.11 with 2.6.18-kernel
- 03 - Installing Centos 4.8 with 2.6.11 Kernel
- 02 - Installing Centos 6.9 with 2.6.34 Kernel
January
2017
November
October
2016
January
- 22 - Hello, World! in Assembly on Research Unix Version 6
- 20 - Quick Setup RT-11v5.3 (Mac/Linux)
- 20 - A tutorial introduction to programming PDP-11 Macro-11 Assembly in RT-11 v5.3
2015
December
- 30 - Tutorial - Setting up RT-11 v5.3 on SimH PDP-11
- 24 - PDP-11 Bootstrap loaders - some analysis
- 24 - PDP-11 BASIC, booting the hard way
- 21 - Analysis of the PDP-11 bootstrap loader code
- 11 - Adding tar to Research Unix Version 6 Running on a PDP 11/40 in SimH
- 07 - Installing and Using Research Unix Version 7 in SimH PDP-11/45 Emulator