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Trace how IBM's 5100 combined an interactive display, keyboard, tape storage, and language-specific configurations into a self-contained computing workflow.
Trace GPU computing from Brook's shader-era techniques through NVIDIA's G80 architecture and CUDA 1.0 without calling either the beginning of GPGPU.
Trace Git from the 2005 BitKeeper rupture through its first kernel release, then examine the object graph and distributed model it introduced.
How IBM's 1964 System/360 replaced incompatible product lines with a shared architecture, standard byte and I/O model, and a difficult software transition.
Explore the 8086 architecture behind x86: 20-bit physical addressing, overlapping 64 KiB segments, the EU/BIU prefetch queue, and the 8088 bus trade-off.
See why the 68000 was called 16/32-bit: its 32-bit register model, 24-bit address space, 16-bit bus, big-endian memory, and supervisor architecture.
What Douglas Engelbart's SRI team actually demonstrated on December 9, 1968, how the networked NLS system worked, and what later retellings overstate.
How Marc Andreessen, Eric Bina, and NCSA turned existing Web ideas into an installable graphical browser, then helped create the conditions for Netscape.