Daily Archives: 2020-06-14

Article note: The industry with absolutely no memory of its own history crests the AI hype cycle for the third time, unaware winter is coming.

Article note: Apollo Domain/OS is one of those bits of fully realized alternate history that everyone in computing owes it to themselves to experience, it was so far ahead and so clean compared to anything else that came to the market. I've only ever played with one in emulation (MESS can do it, it's not _too_ fiddly - but a single node isn't the full magic experience because a lot of their majesty is their network transparency), but if I ever get a line on a one that isn't several hundred dollars I'd _absolutely_ own any of the later Apollo (or HP 9000/4xx) machines; I like and own enough 68k boxes already, it would be a variation on an existing theme.

Article note: Google trying to "curate" (to the highest bidder) out of your observation and control, again. AOL keywords and AMP and capture capture capture. It's a little bit the fault of URLs not going in a uniform order (Why is it not tld.domain/directory/page like most of the competing technologies?) and being confusing to ...dullards... but seriously, protocols, not platforms.