Hacker News with Generative AI: Legacy Technology

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 20 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 50 days ago | 70 comments
Porting OpenVMS to the Itanium Processor Family (2003)[pdf] (openvms.org)
Operating Systems, Processors, Legacy Technology
40 points by naves 58 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 145 days ago | 1 comments
HyperCard Simulator (hcsimulator.com)
HyperCard, Programming, Software, Simulation, Legacy Technology
299 points by metadat 154 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 194 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 221 days ago | 1 comments