A new version of very old software for a very old, but very important, computer
Why does it matter? Well, this piece of software, and the machines it ran on, are markers, memorials of a significant battle. That battle was one stage in a war: a war of rival ways to make computers."History is written by the victors," as Winston ChurchillThis war was, like most, between two rival camps.
And again, like most wars, this one was long and vicious, with some dirty in-fighting on both sides. In the end, one side conclusively won, but it took long enough that the winners were mostly the descendants and relatives of the people who started fighting. Today, they don't even remember that there was a war at all, and the winning side ended up incorporating a lot of ideas and technologies from the losers.
When the winners forget they've won, or that they were fighting, that means that the losing side get to write some of the best summaries of the war. One famous account is a 1991 article called
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