The Corpse of 3D Vision Just Coughed
wiz3D is dragging abandoned PC stereoscopic 3D tech out of the grave, and annoyingly, it kind of rules.
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QWERTY Did Not Conquer Chinese Computing
The world's most 'universal' keyboard only became global after Chinese engineers taught it some manners.
One Guy, Pure Assembly, 1999 Hardware — And He Still Embarrasses Every City Builder Made Today
RollerCoaster Tycoon turned 27 yesterday. One person wrote it in x86 assembly and it still runs circles around modern games on a fraction of the resources.
The IBM 9020: The Franken-Mainframe That Ran U.S. Airspace for 30 Years
IBM bolted a bunch of System/360s together with shared memory and handed the FAA the keys to America's skies. It worked. For three decades.