paul_h

https://www.satherley.com/ seems to be empty of content :(

Nobody cares perhaps, but F5 as a refresh key came in the mid 80s (I was told it was a $1m of usability consulting). The midrange AS/400 got [CUA](https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=actions-default-...) first. There were many more F1 for help, F12 for go-back-a-page, F3 for big-exit of app. Green screen stuff (3270 and 5250 where two common wire/frame protocols). The same keys made the jump to some windows apps. One by one they got whittled away until F5 for refresh was left. For that one it wasn't just Windows - as browser rollout took it wider. Has it gone yet? I'm on a Chromebook and it doesn't have F keys so I can't see for myself.

Chris Hinsley started TaOS toward the end of the 80's .. Him sick of being asked by games industry managers to "do it again but for PC". By 1991 there was a start up, and by 1993 there were awards for his endian-independent VpAsm OS. I mention cos the tubling cube demo (two windows) would allow one to be dragged over the other without cubes slowing in their tumble at all, and without the envelope-drag-letGo-repaint effect. No stammering for the window manager. This tech was legendary and the multi-tasking was an order better than WinNT later which itself was an order better than Mac's cooperative-task-thunking. Lots of the videos of that time lost sadly, and all the source code. Chris is doing it all again, but making it harder for himself -> https://github.com/vygr/ChrysaLisp - while also using LLMs for lots of it.

Way back lots of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ore couln't bring cases against all because the expert witnesses (US law enforcement website trap-setters) wouldn't go to the UK to testify. How come Canada was able to press ahead without the expert winesses being cross examinable?

  There once was a ledger at Uber
  On DynamoDB it ran like a dream,
  Fast writes at great scale,
  But costs set sail,
  And consistency wasn't what it seemed.