the archive
what is written
24 subjects, held closely. Read them here, or ask the oracle and it will answer from
these same pages and nothing else.
hardware
- Computing in the 1990s and Early 2000s Every PC of the era sat behind a deep, heavy glass tube. A color cathode ray tube fired three electron beams, one each for red, green, and blue, through a pe... 10 terms
- Emulation and Preservation An emulator is software that pretends to be another computer. It reads the same program bytes the original console ran, decodes them the way that console's C... 9 terms
- FPGA and the MiSTer Project A field-programmable gate array is an integrated circuit you can rewire after it leaves the factory. Inside is a grid of small logic blocks and a fabric of p... 9 terms
- The Game Boy Nintendo released the Game Boy in Japan on April 21, 1989, and in North America on July 31, 1989. It was not the most powerful handheld of its era; the conte... 9 terms
- The Nintendo 64 Nintendo released the Nintendo 64 in Japan on June 23, 1996, in North America on September 29, 1996, and in Europe and Australia on March 1, 1997. It was the... 8 terms
- The Nintendo GameCube Nintendo shipped the GameCube in Japan on September 14, 2001, in North America on November 18, 2001, and in Europe on May 3, 2002. It was the company's sixth... 10 terms
- The Sega Dreamcast The Dreamcast was Sega's last home console and the first machine of the sixth generation, beating the PlayStation 2, GameCube, and Xbox to market. It launche... 8 terms
kernel and rust
- Rust for Linux Rust for Linux is the effort to make Rust a second implementation language for the Linux kernel, alongside C. The goal is not a rewrite. It is to let new dri... 10 terms
- The BeaglePlay and SPI Display Bring-up BeaglePlay is an open-hardware single-board computer from the BeagleBoard.org Foundation, introduced in March 2023 at a list price of 99 USD. It is built aro... 10 terms
- The C Language C came out of Bell Labs in the early 1970s, written mostly by Dennis Ritchie between 1972 and 1973. It did not appear in a vacuum; it grew alongside Unix and... 9 terms
- The Linux Kernel Linus Torvalds announced Linux in August 1991, a 21-year-old student in Helsinki, in a Usenet post that called it "just a hobby, won't be big and professiona... 9 terms
- The Rust Language Rust began in 2006 as a personal project by Graydon Hoare, then an engineer at Mozilla. Mozilla took over sponsorship in 2009, and the first public release,... 10 terms
- The SPI Bus SPI is a synchronous, full-duplex, master/slave serial bus. Motorola defined it in the 1980s and it never went away. Four signals carry the whole protocol. S... 13 terms
fiction and lore
- Cyberpunk Cyberpunk is a science fiction subgenre and an aesthetic built on a single tension, usually written "high tech, low life." The future it imagines is wired, n... 8 terms
- Neuromancer and the Cyberpunk Vocabulary Neuromancer is William Gibson's first novel, published in 1984. It won the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Philip K. Dick award in a single cycle; it remains the o... 10 terms
- Warhammer 40,000 and the Necrons Warhammer 40,000 is a tabletop miniatures wargame published by Games Workshop. It first appeared in 1987 as Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, and it has run th... 12 terms