Published at: 06:05 pm - Wednesday May 23 2012
Computing pioneer Alan Kay tells us that a computer is “an instrument whose music is ideas.” This seems like a beautiful metaphor, until you realize that we have somehow ended up in a world where the profession of musician is nearly unknown. To continue with this analogy, let’s imagine that you were a child who […]
Published at: 05:05 pm - Tuesday May 08 2012
At present, I have taken a break from the hardware aspects of Loper – to work on “Jupiter,” a Linux-based emulator of the system’s essential aspects. (Think QEMU.) Jupiter is unlikely to be of any practical use to anyone but myself. However, at some point, I will make it public, so that interested persons who […]
