Thimbles & Care

As long as I’m talking about old things, the first webAgent 1.0 script started running some time in September 1995, so it’s 20 years old now.

Remember Windows 1.0? It’s been 30 years (and you’re officially old)

Personally, I was using VM/370+CMS back then.

LLVM to get FORTRAN compiler that targets parallel GPUs in clusters

Who’d’a’ thunk it?

Gene Amdahl dies at 92

For anyone who doesn’t know, Gene Amdahl was the lead architect on IBM’s System/360, the original mainframe. When IBM management wouldn’t let him pursue some improvements on the design, he left and formed his own, competing company—the University has owned many Amdahl computers over the years.