Reverse engineering Infocom games - the first open source Z-Machine interpreter
In 1987 five of us at Sydney University took Infocom's virtual machine apart to see how it worked. We did not expect it to matter to anyone else.
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The HP 48, and two programs I wrote for it
I have loved HP calculators all my life, and the HP 48 was the first I bought with my own hard earned money. In 1991 I taught mine the foreign exchange market and how to price a bond.
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hello polyglots: one program, eight languages
A program three of us wrote in 1991 that compiles and runs in eight languages, and what became of it.
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