Neat. Found an issue in chapter 3, first sentence says electronic computers were during WWII, but they were electro-mechanical… they used relays. Vac tubes came later, ENIAC was finished after the war finished, for example.
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jolmg
> bundling the Pascal system with ex, a line editor developed from em.
What's em? I thought it was developed from ed.
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BikiniPrince
It absolutely needs like 52 panels. I hope they integrate some politics by panel 1025.
Bill Joy, the unsung hero of the computer revolution.
Looks nice, too bad though it doesn't expose any sort of RSS/Atom feed, if I can't add it to my feed reader I'll soon forget about it.
Marshall Kirk McKusick, mentioned in this comic, was still committing changes to FreeBSD as of last August:
* https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/sbin/restore?id=2cefae4c...
Love this. The human touch of illustration, and classic stories from computer history. I'm going through the entire series up to now, it's great.
My favorite panel so far: What is a real programmer? https://fosscomics.com/posts/6.%20The%20Origin%20of%20the%20...
Neat. Found an issue in chapter 3, first sentence says electronic computers were during WWII, but they were electro-mechanical… they used relays. Vac tubes came later, ENIAC was finished after the war finished, for example.
> bundling the Pascal system with ex, a line editor developed from em.
What's em? I thought it was developed from ed.
It absolutely needs like 52 panels. I hope they integrate some politics by panel 1025.
Good I like it