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Articles

Articles groups the long-form Learn More pieces this atlas plans to write for its own entities, drafted in pairs per subject once article authoring resumes. Belongs here: a pending or published article and the entity it discusses, covering a pioneer's career, a language's development or a system's history in more depth than the entity's own structured facts allow. Does not belong here: any subject-matter entity itself, such as a language, a system or a pioneer, which is filed under its own type instead.

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How a container number checks itself

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How a Frustrated Typesetting Job Produced TeX

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How a linguist's four grammar classes became a foundation of compiler design

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How a ruined weekend run led to Hamming codes

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How a statistician job and a PDP-11 led to the MIT Experimental Music Studio

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How a stopgap CP/M substitute became the root of DOS

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How a telegraph speed problem became a limit on every channel

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How a throwaway experiment became a 33-year system

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How a walk over seven bridges became graph theory

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How A/UX ran Macintosh and Unix programs side by side

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How AlexNet moved neural network training onto GPUs

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How Algorithm Traveled From Al-Khwarizmi's Name to Any Precise Procedure

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How Amoeba made a pool of processors look like one computer

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How an Apple III booted SOS and shared a disk with ProDOS

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How an arcade kit previewed the NES

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How an early sales crisis nearly sank Oracle

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How an IBAN checks itself before a payment is sent

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How an IMEI is built and where blocking falls short

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How an unreleased operating system changed the ARM instruction set

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How Anti-Aircraft Gunnery Led Norbert Wiener to Found Cybernetics

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How Apple DOS was commissioned, reformatted and outgrown

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How Apple Pascal reorganized the floppy disk

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How Atari TOS disks differed from PC disks

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How Barto and Sutton let reinforcement learning work without a known model

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How bit blit and Smalltalk came out of one workbench

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How CiteSeer Turned Citations Into a Search Index

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How Contiki fits an operating system into kilobytes

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How Cray planned a twelvefold leap, and why it did not matter

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How CSIRAC stored data, and why it was never restored

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How EDVAC stored and found its instructions

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How ENIAC was programmed: wiring, switches and six women

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How feedback and priorities kept telephone switches from freezing

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How FlexOS ended up running cash registers

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How Friedman learned to break rotor machines and then built one that resisted him

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How GS/OS read disks from other systems

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How HarmonyOS moved away from Android

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How Hartree carried ENIAC to Britain

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How Hollerith turned holes in cards into counts

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How Ingres made relational databases practical

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How James Clark built the tools around XML

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How Minix 3 restarts its own drivers

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How modules and CPAN let Perl 5 grow without changing its core

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How MS-DOS was translated back into Z80 code for MSX

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How NP-Completeness Got Its Name, After the Field Agreed Not to Settle Its Biggest Question

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How open movies kept Blender developing

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How OpenSolaris was opened in stages and then closed

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How PC-BSD packaged software in self-contained .pbi bundles

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How p-code made UCSD Pascal portable, and why that was not enough

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How PHP grew without a design

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How Pilot ACE learned floating-point arithmetic

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