50-odd years later, the bits still had teeth. Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has pulled the contents from a more than half-century-old tape found at the University of… 50-odd years ...

AutoHotkey (AHK) is a free and simple yet powerful Windows scripting language. It doesn’t get a lot of press these days, but Windows geeks used to love writing and swapping AHK scripts. Well, that’s ...

just downloaded the v1.7 release and executed it in an empty directory. It has extracted these files: D:\Tools\AutoHotkey_v2\@AHK-v2-script-converter\AutoHotKey Exe ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. It’s pretty easy to run a batch file on Windows. Just create a file, change the extension to ...

After a heroic effort, the oldest machine-readable copy of Unix version 2 is running again. The recovered code runs on a PDP-11 simulator and contains a version of Unix that's later than V1 from 1972, ...

A researcher has recovered the oldest known machine-readable version of Unix yet, an early Unix version 2 release from 1972. The backstory is incredible. Now, however, forensic code researcher Yufeng ...

In 1997 a set of DEC tapes were provided by Dennis Ritchie, as historical artifacts for those interested in the gestation of the UNIX operating system. The resulting archive files have recently been ...

Cardano (ADA) has delivered a standout performance in 2024, solidifying its position as one of the most technically sophisticated and developer-friendly blockchain ecosystems. Central to its growth ...

In 2024, the Cardano (ADA) ecosystem has seen remarkable growth in its smart contract capabilities, with Plutus V2 contracts taking center stage. At the start of the year on January 1, there were ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is collaborating with policymakers, energy suppliers, and space companies under the Solaris initiative to assess the feasibility of space-based solar power. A decision ...