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RISCy business: The long and convoluted rise of today's dominant computing platform

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In the 1980s, RISC was the future. By the early 2000s, it was the past. And now it's the future again.

SPARCbook teardown

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In a 2019 blog post, I explored a SPARC-based laptop from the 1990s running Solaris UNIX. In this post, I run through a teardown of the laptop to explore its hardware design.

Halt and Catch Fire

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The best drama set amidst the backdrop of the computer revolution.

RIP Solaris

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The last UNIX giant of the 90s is now dead.

50 shades of Cray

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This post is all about Cray computers.

Futuretech '92

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The Canadian government flew the top 125 students out to Calgary for Canada's 125th anniversary. I was one of them.

2. Retro Computers

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I collect vintage computers, and this page is dedicated to my favourites. The first part discusses the old personal computers of the 1970s-1990s (Apple, Commodore, Tandy, IBM, Atari, Sinclair, ColecoVision, Osborne, Kaypro and GRiD) while the second part discusses the high-end (and costly) UNIX workstations of the 1990s and early 2000s (SUN, Tadpole, SGI, DEC, NeXT and HP).