Apple Network Server 500 内置了鲜为人知的 PPC Toolbox,让 AIX 服务器能与 Mac 桌面协同运行程序。作者用这台 1997 年的服务器演示了 TLS 1.3 JSON API 调用的跨平台实现。 ANS 是 Apple 首款无法启动 Classic Mac OS、原生运行非苹果操作系统的服务器,采用 IBM AIX。PPC Toolbox 允许 Mac 客户端将计算密集型任务卸载到 ANS 上执行,结果再返回桌面。文章回顾了 Apple-IBM 合作开发 PowerPC 和 AIX 的完整历史,包括 PowerOpen、Taligent 等项目的兴衰。
Floodgap 团队重建了一台 Apple Workgroup Server 9150 并为其安装 MkLinux。这是 Apple 早期明确定位为服务器的 Mac 机型之一,早于后来基于 IBM AIX 的 Apple Network Server。文章记录了从修复故障机器到折腾 MkLinux 的完整过程,包含大量一手硬件经验和历史细节。
老式计算机研究博客深度拆解 DECmate II——DEC 在 1982 年将经典 PDP-8 小型机架构缩小为桌面微计算机的历史尝试。文章延续作者对 DEC Professional 系列的研究脉络,详细追溯了 PDP-8 小型化历程:从 DECmate I 到 DECmate II 的演进、硬件架构设计决策、软件兼容性的权衡,以及这台机器在 PC 浪潮中的市场定位与命运。作者以亲身研究经验和对 DEC 产品线的长期追踪,提供了大量一手技术细节和行业背景,生动呈现了这款小众机型独特的设计哲学与历史地位,是复古计算爱好者不可多得的技术考古佳作。
I'm doing periodic updates on some of my long-term projects, one of them being 6o6, a fully virtualized NMOS 6502 CPU core that runs on a 6502 written in 6502 assembly language. 6o6 implements a compl...
I've mentioned previously (/2020/09/hacking-gopher-client-into-alpha-micro.html) my great affection for Alpha Microsystems hardware, which are rather obscure computers nowadays, but back in the 1980s ...
A more obscure Commodore employee (where he apparently met his wife), but still quite influential during the Amiga era. Along with more pedestrian units such as the Amiga 3000 and the monochrome Amiga...
Remember when Sega made consoles? Hideki Sato remembered, because he was involved in or designed all of them — from the 1982 SG-1000 under Sega Enterprises Ltd. president Hayao Nakayama, later reworke...
Canadians, rejoice! Not only do you have curling, the Big Turk and Tim Hortons (and, when I was in BC last, Dr Pepper made with real cane sugar), you also have a number of interesting indigenous compu...