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Could Reticulum Power A Post-Internet Network?

These days, it is easy to think you always have access to the Internet. But some wonder if — in spite of its ARPANET, nuclear-war-planning h

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Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: "Fork it. Or just walk away."

Creator says he will "very loudly ignore" those arguing for a ban on AI tools.

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A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time

It helped popularize the interactive computing paradigm we take for granted today.

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steen's online burrow

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Remembering The Zilog Z80 As It Turns Fifty Years Old

Perhaps the saddest thing about the Zilog Z80 is that this humble 8-bit microprocessor wasn’t allowed to live until its 50th birthday. This,

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AMD's legendary K5, its first independently-designed processor, is being removed from the Linux kernel — 4.3-million-transistor chip gets th

The K5 (1996) is important in AMD history as it was its first independently designed x86 processor.

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Intel introduced ‘the first processor in the x86 series and the first 8086 microprocessor’ on this day in 1978 — CPU was designed as a tempo

Should we expect a new 8086 anniversary CPU from Intel two years from now?

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Zilog Z80 turns 50 as an open-source replacement heads to drop-in DIP40 silicon — iconic 8-bit CPU launched in July 1976 and was discontinue

The Z80 powered many retro favorites like the ZX Spectrum, TRS-80, MSX, Game Boy, Master System, Pac-Man arcade cabinet, and many more

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The eight-bit Z80 is dead. Long live the 16-bit Z80!

Yes, they are harder to solder, but there's way more potential

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The Spectrum – an eerily familiar TV games console

: Rubber-key revival leans on Linux, emulation, and third-party ROMs

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Classic ASCII game NetHack debuts version 5.0

Antiques Code Show: New monsters! New magic items! An Arm port! And compliance with a dead C standard

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Blockbuster new Raspberry Pi project turns any screen into old-school VCR

Who needs fancy menus and high definition? 240-MP will play your media files like it's 1999

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Nostalgic for VB? BASIC is anything but dead

Microsoft's attention has moved on, but flame still alive

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The New ROM Antics – building the ZX Spectrum 128

Opinion: If you think Sinclair’s hardware was odd, you haven’t met the people

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The Sinclair QL's legacy at 40

Retro Tech Week: Compatible hardware and peripherals are still on sale, four decades after its launch

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ZX Spectrum Next Issue 2 ships out, chip shortages be damned

El Reg talks to the project's founder