#OTD in #ComputingHistory in 1956, IBM released the first manual for the programming language FORTRAN. The manual appeared six months before the compiler was ready, giving programmers time to learn and prepare for this milestone in computing. https://www.acm.org/education/otd-in-computing-history

#OTD in #ComputingHistory in 1956, IBM released the first manual for the programming language FORTRAN. The manual appeared six months before the compiler was ready, giving programmers time to learn and prepare for this milestone in computing. https://www.acm.org/education/otd-in-computing-history

More fun from the show this weekend.

#INITHELLO#SystemSource #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #computers #computinghistory #vintagetech #vintage #museums

More INIT HELLO fun at the System Source Computer Museum today!

#INITHELLO#SystemSource #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #computers #computinghistory #vintagetech #vintage #museums

FreeBSD has supported jails since the early 2000s!

They’re baked into the kernel and far more mature than most container runtimes.

#FreeBSD #computinghistory

Did you know that the 'NT' in Windows NT stood for "Nine Ten"?

The intended core platform for the OS was the then-expected Intel i910 RISC processor, which was to be the rebranded moniker for the i860 that can be found in the wild.

It never came to be due to the i860s terrible handling of context switching -- a capability that a CPU for a multitasking, multiuser workstation OS must be able to do very_efficiently. The i860 wasn't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTkFGZqVCM8&t=459s

** EDIT: Several have pointed to sources indicating differently that NT stood for N10, which was the codename for the i860, so -- N10, N-Ten > NT.

#TIL#WindowsNT#Windows#Intel #i860 #i910 #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing#OS#techhistory#RISC #x86 #processors #computers #computinghistory#Microsoft

Guess what arrived in Switzerland today! This looks great, @alexobenauer!

#retrocomputing #computinghistory