Hacker News with Generative AI: Legacy Technology

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?
The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option (2022) (tmm.cx)
The very weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option
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.
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.
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.
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”.
Porting OpenVMS to the Itanium Processor Family (2003)[pdf] (openvms.org)
Japan wins 2-year "war on floppy disks," kills regulations requiring old tech (arstechnica.com)
HyperCard Simulator (hcsimulator.com)
How to read C type declarations (2003) (unixwiz.net)
Zilog Calls Time on the Venerable Z80, Discontinues the Standalone Z84C00 CPU (hackster.io)