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How programs cross into the kernel, and the long argument over its size

How Radia Perlman made bridged networks safe from loops

How RSTS grew from 56 kilobytes to four megabytes

How Scratch was built to be remixed

How SEQUEL became SQL, and why the standard still has many dialects

How strictly an algorithm must stay in place

How SunOS became Solaris

How the Cray-1 kept vector data in registers

How the Exidy Sorcerer drew its screen with redefinable characters

How the first Fortran compiler earned programmers trust

How the Harvard Mark I ran a program from paper tape

How the Julian day grew out of a scheme for dating history

How the Jupiter Ace's Forth did without a disk

How the LGP-30 did so much with so little hardware

How the MicroBee grew out of S-100 cards

How the network layer handles packets that are too large

How TypeScript, Born From JavaScript's Own Limits, Overtook It

How Version 6 Unix became a classroom text

How Whirlwind I solved memory and tube reliability for real-time computing

How William Kahan taught computers to round honestly

How WordPerfect was run by three people

Implants, a robot arm and a disputed Turing test claim

Inferno and the Java race: a capable system that found few buyers

Ink that stayed ink: how Newton OS handled pen input

JOHNNIAC and the machine that was rebuilt while it ran

Kaspersky and the three zone Internet

Kevin Mitnick: a contested sentence and a second career in defense

Kleene and the ideas behind regular expressions

Lanier against the online collective

Leading the West Area Computers into the Programming Era

Learning the ENIAC from the wiring diagrams up

Learning to program slowly and letting data do the work

Leaving Google to Warn About AI Risk

Leaving IBM twice and founding its rivals

Linda and the tuple space model of parallel programming

Machines that decide: the 1914 Essays on Automatics

Machines, theories and systems from Toronto

Memory contention and the limits of the SAM Coupé's 6 MHz Z80B

MESM, from prototype near Kyiv to dismantling in 1959

MINIX, a Unix clone written to be read and taught

Modeless software and the origin of copy and paste

Move bits, not atoms: Negroponte as forecaster

Multics: a commercial disappointment and a lasting foundation

Names for disks, devices and directories in AmigaDOS

NeXTSTEP as a stack of kits, and where the stack went

Numerical libraries that kept pace with the hardware

One 1981 License, Two Diverging Operating Systems

One name, several systems: how TRSDOS changed hands

One name, two layers: the application layer in TCP/IP and OSI

One parent per node, and the conventions that follow