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- 1How retro consoles handled graphics before modern GPUs▼How did retro consoles handle graphics before modern GPUs? Graphics chips could draw but not compute, until the Xbox arr
A new explainer looks at how retro console graphics chips worked in the era before modern GPUs. These early chips could draw images but could not compute anything themselves, with that limitation persisting until the original Xbox arrived in 2001 and brought a real programmable GPU to home consoles. The piece traces that technological shift and how it changed what developers could do with game graphics.
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A written guide to computer museums across the Netherlands is drawing attention, highlighting institutions where visitors can see historic computing hardware, from early mainframes and home computers to retro gaming machines. Readers are discussing which collections are worth visiting and reminiscing about machines they grew up with, as well as noting how such museums preserve computing history that might otherwise be lost.
- 3SDF, the internet's oldest public access Unix system, endures●SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987
SDF, the public access Unix system founded in 1987, is drawing renewed attention as one of the longest-running community computing platforms still online. Users praise it as a living piece of internet history, offering free Unix shell accounts, forums and retro services maintained by volunteers for nearly four decades.
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- pkimpel/retro-1620 Web-based emulator and operating environment for the IBM 1620 Model-2 computer system.