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The other day, a colleague asked if I knew where a local restaurant was. I popped the restaurant’s card up from Newton’s Names file. While he was looking for a piece of paper to write the address on, I spotted an HP LaserJet 5MP in the corner. I pointed my Newton at it, tapped Print, and by the time my friend found a sheet of paper, I had a printed address to hand him.
Reflections on Life Without Newton - TidBITS
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Why the Tilde Is Used to Represent the Home Directory
In the 1970s, the Lear-Siegler ADM-3A terminal was in widespread use. On the ADM-3A keyboard, the tilde shared the same key as the Home key.
Small, Sharp Software Tools
Brian P. Hogan
And then we were told we could not integrate for Tiger.
That we would miss our self-imposed deadline. Because it was “too much change at once, with the Intel changes”.
Tiger dragged on for another 6 months before release, with week-for-week slips. This was because of Intel-specific bugs — not in the kernel.
What Goes Into Making an OS to Be Unix Compliant Certified?
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