Hacker News with Generative AI: Legacy Technology

The people stuck using ancient Windows computers (bbc.com)
CTRL+ALT+DEL, but make it forever. As technology marches on, some people get trapped using decades-old software and devices. Here's a look inside the strange, stubborn world of obsolete Windows machines.
Technology, Operating Systems, Windows, Legacy Technology, Nostalgia
9 points by padolsey 5 days ago | 3 comments
Linux kernel is leaving 486 CPUs behind, only 18 years after the last one made (arstechnica.com)
Linus Torvalds sees "zero real reason for anybody to waste one second" on them.
Linux, Operating Systems, Hardware, Legacy Technology
20 points by jnord 14 days ago | 3 comments
IRIX 6.5.17 Source Code (github.com/calmsacibis995)
The IRIX 6.5.17 source code.
Operating Systems, Source Code, Software, Github, Legacy Technology
25 points by andsoitis 43 days ago | 2 comments
A note on the USB-to-PS/2 mouse adapter that came with Microsoft mouse devices (microsoft.com)
Back in the early days of USB, Microsoft mouse devices often came with a USB plug at the end of the cable, but also came with a small green adapter to convert the USB type-A plug into a PS/2 plug. How did this adapter work?
Hardware, Legacy Technology, Computer Peripherals, Microsoft
384 points by luu 57 days ago | 142 comments
The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option (2022) (tmm.cx)
The very weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option
Operating Systems, Legacy Technology, HP, FreeDOS
107 points by wibbily 82 days ago | 33 comments
Any Key (wikipedia.org)
In computing, "Press any key to continue" (or a similar text) was a historically used prompt to the user when it was necessary to pause processing.
Computing, User Interface, History, Legacy Technology
4 points by MrJagil 113 days ago | 0 comments
Linux Looks to Drop Support for IBM Cell Blade Servers (phoronix.com)
The latest house cleaning of the Linux kernel is looking to drop support for IBM Cell Blade servers for those platforms from the better part of two decades ago with Cell BE processors that also had worked their way into some supercomputers at the time.
Linux, Operating Systems, Hardware, IBM, Legacy Technology
23 points by rbanffy 156 days ago | 0 comments
Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now (theverge.com)
Microsoft is adding AI-powered text editing to Notepad, the stripped-down text editor originally introduced in 1983.
AI, Text Editing, Microsoft, Software, Legacy Technology
281 points by redbell 197 days ago | 446 comments
The costs of the i386 to x86-64 upgrade (blogsystem5.substack.com)
If you read my previous article on DOS memory models, you may have dismissed everything I wrote as “legacy cruft from the 1990s that nobody cares about any longer”.
Computer Architecture, Operating Systems, Legacy Technology
118 points by thunderbong 228 days ago | 70 comments
Porting OpenVMS to the Itanium Processor Family (2003)[pdf] (openvms.org)
Operating Systems, Processors, Legacy Technology
40 points by naves 236 days ago | 28 comments
Japan wins 2-year "war on floppy disks," kills regulations requiring old tech (arstechnica.com)
Japan, Technology, Regulations, Legacy Technology
4 points by Brajeshwar 323 days ago | 1 comments
HyperCard Simulator (hcsimulator.com)
HyperCard, Programming, Software, Simulation, Legacy Technology
299 points by metadat 332 days ago | 123 comments
How to read C type declarations (2003) (unixwiz.net)
C Programming, Programming Languages, Unix, Software Development, Legacy Technology
152 points by aragonite 371 days ago | 131 comments
Zilog Calls Time on the Venerable Z80, Discontinues the Standalone Z84C00 CPU (hackster.io)
Hardware, Microprocessors, Legacy Technology
12 points by CrankyBear 399 days ago | 1 comments