#computers #efficiency
Software tweak doubles computer processing speed, halves energy use.
https://newatlas.com/computers/smht-parallel-processing/

Today I was reminiscing with my #parkrun friends at coffee about the remarkable technology evolution I've witnessed since seeing my first computer 60 years ago as a young teen. I told them that the English Electric Leo III #computers had Williams tube memory, wherein you could see the bits changing. This was no marketing feature, but a property of a storage system that leveraged the CRT phosphor to store a transient bit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEO_(computer)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_tube

I still have a Lisa in the garage.
https://www.theverge.com/23724804/lisa-computer-apple-steve-jobs-burial-utah-sun-remarketing-documentary
#computers #Apple

This is awesome! The Imperial March from Star Wars played on the Floppotron - a collection of floppy disk drives, hard drives and other computer hardware.
https://youtu.be/Oym7B7YidKs?si=t5OKiJNFJXAQpA3d
/nosanitize
#humor #computers #CoSoMusic #DIY

@phase2
https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/google-microsoft-take-refuge-in-rust-languages-better-security
#computers #language

Early in my employment I worked on two classic #computers that we would now classify as RISC machines - the PDP-8/E and the Nova 2. The PDP-8 was a 12-bit machine with 8 opcodes and the Nova 2 was 16-bit machine with essentially 8 I/O, 8 arithmetic/logical, 6 memory reference and 7 CPU control instructions. Early Nova computers read from 8-channel paper tape (2 frames per word) with longitudinal parity. Magnetic tape was only 7-channel with horizontal parity, and it was deemed impossible to 1/3