Friendly Neighbor: A network service for Linux wake-on-demand, written in Zig d dgross.ca 4 danieg 3 years ago 0 comments
Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand – the simple way d dgross.ca 671 danieg 3 years ago 237 comments
How a copier company invented modern computing; why you've never used a Xerox PC d dgross.ca 3 danieg 5 years ago 0 comments
Some fun historical context: the 74181 chip (part of the 74HC series) was one of the key technologies behind the Xerox Alto. It was the first complete ALU on a single chip using a medium-scale integration (MSI) design. This was what enabled the Alto to be much smaller than minicomputers like the PDP-8, which used small-scale integration (SSI) that spread the processor over many individual logic gate chips and circuit boards.