2015.11.29
Raspberry Pi Zero vs Elliott 405
Twitter users
@SadHappyAmazing and
@HistoricalPics
posted yesterday
two photographs
(copy)
showing the
Raspberry Pi Zero
juxtaposed in front of the Norwich City Council Treasurer's Department building,
where the delivery of the Elliott 405 computer was photographed in 1957.
Here is how the two computers compare.
Continue reading "Raspberry Pi Zero vs Elliott 405"Last modified: Sunday, November 29, 2015 3:23 am
2013.12.11
The Birth of Standard Error
Earlier today Stephen Johnson, in a mailing list run by the
The Unix Heritage Society,
described the birth of the standard error concept:
the idea that a program's error output is sent on a channel
different from that of its normal output.
Over the past forty years, all major operating systems and language libraries
have embraced this concept.
Continue reading "The Birth of Standard Error"Last modified: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 4:45 pm
