Human folly for 02024-01-31

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• Chris date and the relational model (red-gate.com):

  interview with Chris Date about the #history of relational #databases, where he rags on XQuery as “IMS warmed over”

• Broadway (web.archive.org):

  the "Broadway" #X-Windows browser plugin from X11R6.3 from 01997

• Broadway (docs.gtk.org):

  #Broadway is apparently supported in #GTK again?

• Virtscreen (github.com):

  adding an additional #X-Windows screen via x11vnc and XRandR so you can use other nearby devices as additional screens with a #VNC viewer

• The apparent simplicity of RGB rendering (thomasmansencal.substack.com):

  #color in physically-based rendering of 3-D #graphics

• Lisp in space with Ron Garret (corecursive.com):

  Ron Garret on #debugging and fixing a failure on Deep #Space 1 when it was 200 million km away. #history #NASA

• Books (books.google.com.ar):

  Golden Common #Lisp from #Gold-Hill required 512KiB of RAM in 01985 on MS-DOS 2.0, though in that Computerworld article, David Touretzky said it’s “not a full Common Lisp implementation”, which apparently had to wait for version 3 in 01988. Part of the problem was apparently that it was dynamically scoped. #history

• Tkbsyzi1Djm (groups.google.com):

  comp.lang.lisp post by Robert Krajewski on 01990-04-07 entitled “Has Gold Hill really gone away?” He says he worked at #Gold-Hill until the layoff, and it’s not dead. #Lisp #history

• Developer (goldhill-inc.com):

  current #Gold-Hill web site offers “GCLISP Developer, the most powerful 5th generation Object-Oriented development tool for Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 95.” #Lisp #retrocomputing

• Common (goldhill-inc.com):

  #Gold-Hill recommends 640KiB of RAM for their “Gold Hill Common #Lisp SE” #retrocomputing

• Macaroons escalated quickly (fly.io):

  #macaroons were introduced by Google in 02014 for #web #security

• (oberon2005.oberoncore.ru):

  an amazing repository of papers related to #Oberon, many in Russian