John Hardy

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2026-08-31 12:29:02 UTC

Ted Nelson's Dream Machines (1974)
You CAN and MUST understand computers now!
Half the book was a manifesto to personal computing self-published in the year that home computer kits started becoming available.
The other dedicated to Nelson's research project (Project Xanadu) where he introduced the concept of hypertext and hypermedia.
Nelson's hypertext went on to inspire the creation of the World Wide Web, a project Nelson never felt fully captured his vision.
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2026-08-31 11:13:58 UTC

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yes that was the from the heyday of MS-DOS. Loads of handy utilities came out in the form of a TSR. The most famous one I think was Borland Sidekick.

2026-08-31 10:57:59 UTC

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An .EXE file has a header (containing an MZ for Mark Zbikowski its designer) and used a loader to set up and move things to different 64K segments for code, data, stack and extra