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[News] First 4004 Application 'Goes' Open Source

  • Subject: [News] First 4004 Application 'Goes' Open Source
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:51:10 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Historians Recreate Source Code of First 4004 Application

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| The team of 'digital archaeologists' who developed the technology behind the 
| Intel Museum's 4004 microprocessor exhibit have done it again. 36 years after 
| Intel introduced their first microprocessor on November 15, 1971, these  
| computer historians have turned the spotlight on the first application 
| software ever written for a general-purpose microprocessor...
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http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/15/1818248&from=rss

Here's a weird 'open source' application (can't get to development on theie
site).

XWiki vies for top spot in enterprise market

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| As hordes of European Java programmers descend on the JavaPolis conference in 
| Belgium in mid-december, the developers of XWiki hope to turn heads with 
| their "second-generation" wiki software that includes experimental 
| integration with the Google Docs spreadsheet module.   
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http://www.itmanagersjournal.com/feature/28835


Recent:

MIT releases the sources of MULTICS, the father of UNIX!

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| This is extraordinary news for all nerds, computer scientists and the Open 
| Source community: the source code of the MULTICS operating system 
| (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service), the father of UNIX and all 
| modern OSes, has finally been opened.    
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http://www.kirps.com/web/main/_blog/all/mit-releases-the-sources-of-multics-the-father-of-unix.shtml


Related:

Dear Mr. Gates: save Vista, open-source it

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| Although Microsoft may claim otherwise, Vista, from both from a technical
| and business point of view, is proving to be a failure. Why not turn it
| over to people who have shown time after time that they can deliver
| the goods?
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS2930812631.html

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