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Jim Nelson

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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33 What are the major technical difference between Multics and Unix? Jul 20 '20
19 When connecting to the Internet via Dial-Up, why did ISPs require a username/password to authenticate the session? Apr 10 '20
17 How did Atari lose money on home computers? Feb 12 '20
14 What languages are better fit for generating efficient code for 8-bit CPU's than C? May 29 '20
14 Why did the MS-DOS API choose software interrupts for its interface? Feb 25 '20
13 Where can I find software that was designed for Windows 1.0? Jul 2 '20
13 How can I access/use memory outside of the standard 1 MB address range of MS-DOS? Mar 21 '20
13 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 What happened to the S1 operating system? Aug 22 '20
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