Statement Regarding Research Unix Editions 8, 9, and 10 (PDF), “Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc., on behalf of itself and Nokia Bell Laboratories agrees, to the extent of its ability to do so, that it will not assert its copyright rights with respect to any non-commercial copying, distribution, performance, display or creation of derivative works of Research Unix Editions 8, 9, and 10.” Yay!
Stochastic program optimization can consider the whole program and find solutions that can only be obtained through, for example, “the simultaneous consideration of mutually dependent issues such as instruction selection, register allocation, and target-dependent optimisation.”
Pratt Parsing Without Prototypal Inheritance, Global Variables, Virtual Dispatch, or Java
Attack of the Killer Microseconds, “it is quite easy to take fast hardware and throw away its performance with software designed for millisecond-scale devices.”
Ted Nelson’s JOT word-processing interface from the 1970’s. Emulated in your browser.
RFC 8140: The Arte of ASCII or, An True and Accurate Representation of an Menagerie of Thynges Fabulous and Wonderful in Ye Forme of Character.