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I work for Internet Archive developing scalable solutions for the Petabox infrastructure.

At the Yorba Foundation I led development of open source applications Shotwell, a photo manager, and Geary, a modern email client.

I also write novels and short stories: j-nelson.net

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19 When connecting to the Internet via Dial-Up, why did ISPs require a username/password to authenticate the session? Apr 10
16 How did Atari lose money on home computers? Feb 12
14 Why did the MS-DOS API choose software interrupts for its interface? Feb 25
10 Where can I find software that was designed for Windows 1.0? 20 hours ago
10 How can I access/use memory outside of the standard 1 MB address range of MS-DOS? Mar 21
9 What languages are better fit for generating efficient code for 8-bit CPU's than C? May 29
9 Are there statements from IBM insiders revealing why OS/2 was dropped? Dec 24 '19
9 Why has Novell never written its own boot loader? Jul 3 '19
6 How did early x86 BIOS programmers manage to program full blown TUIs given very few bytes of ROM/EPROM? Jun 5 '19
3 Cost of unrestricted sprites Jan 18
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