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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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Tony Hoare on his own mistakes

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Two disputes that shaped the Royal Society, from Newton to Babbage

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Two lasting legacies: Hopcroft algorithms and textbooks

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Two models that bridged theory and practice

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What Boole Meant His Algebra of Logic to Do

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What compatible meant in the Compatible Time-Sharing System

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What knowing the bits of Chaitin's constant would reveal

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What the last digit of a UPC protects against

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What the transport layer repairs, and why it resists change

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What the war destroyed of Konrad Zuse's machines, and what he rebuilt

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What TRIPOS left out, and how its design reached the Amiga

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Where strings came from and how they behave

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Who wrote PC DOS after 1985

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Why a checksum catches some errors and misses others

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Why an assembler may read your program twice

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Why an astronomer built his own logarithm table

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Why BBN built its own pager, and how TENEX became TOPS-20

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Why bridgeOS starts before the Mac does

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Why ChibiOS/RT keeps its kernel static

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Why Cisco IOS runs as one program, and what that cost

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Why Dartmouth built a language that Fortran was not

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Why Edubuntu was built for teachers, and why it kept stalling

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Why Hellman and Diffie challenged the DES key size

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Why Hindley-Milner allows polymorphism only for let-bound names

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Why IBM and Microsoft parted ways over OS/2

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Why iteration needs to know how many times to repeat

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Why Microsoft sold a Unix alongside MS-DOS

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Why Multiuser DOS lost ground to networks of ordinary PCs

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Why Peter Naur wanted to call it datalogy

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Why PRIMOS was written in FORTRAN

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Why ProDOS broke with Apple DOS, and why users switched anyway

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Why Schneier says the algorithm is rarely the weak point

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Why Stallman Insists on GNU Slash Linux

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Why the AmigaOne took so long to arrive and keep arriving

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Why the best predictor cannot be computed

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Why the CDC 6400 ran one instruction at a time

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Why the Mozilla Public License draws its line at the file

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Why the Wii kept many IOS versions installed at once

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Why TypeScript kept JavaScript compatibility, and how its compiler changed

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Why Unix had a System III but no System I, II or IV

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Why xv6 was built small enough to read in one semester

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