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Computing and The Internet
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943
New Technologies
- The Panda Project
The Archistrat computer -- modular, interchangeable components, resulting in the industry's first true universal-architecture computer.
- Be, Inc
The makers of the BeBox. The BeBox is a new kind of computer. It is not a Macintosh or PC clone. It has two PowerPC 603 processors, expansion slots for lots of typical PC devices, and tons of I/O (input/output) capacity. This machine has been described as "Geekware".
- Plan 9
Plan 9 is a new computer operating system and associated utilities. It has been built over the past several years by the Computing Science Research Center of AT&T Bell Laboratories, the same group that developed Unix, C, and C++.
- Inferno
Inferno(tm) is a new network operating system and programming environment to deliver content in a rich environment of heterogenous networks, clients and servers. The Inferno system includes the Inferno kernel, the Limbo(tm) programming language, reference APIs that include interfaces for networking and graphics, network protocols, security and authentication, and various toolkits. Inferno was developed by members of the Computing Sciences Research Center of Bell Laboratories, the research arm of Lucent Technologies.
- Java
Java is a simple, robust, object-oriented, platform-independent multi-threaded, dynamic general-purpose programming environment. It's best for creating applets and applications for the Internet, intranets and any other complex, distributed network.
- COMPUTING: The Virtual Library
- Many links to Computing and associated topics.
- The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
- FOLDOC is a searchable dictionary of acronyms, jargon, programming languages, tools, architecture, operating systems, networking, theory, conventions, standards, mathematics, telecomms, electronics, institutions, companies, projects, products, history, in fact anything to do with computing.
- TAP
- The Ada Project (TAP) is a WWW site designed to serve as a clearinghouse for information and resources relating to women in computing.
- The Greatest Gurus Ever
- A nice collection of mini-biographies on many of the more important figures in computing.
- Internet Maps
- "We are running a long-term project to collect routing data on the Internet. This mapping consists of frequent traceroute-style path probes, one to each registered Internet entity. From this, we build a tree showing the paths to most of the nets on the Internet..."
- Java
- Java is a simple, robust, object-oriented, platform-independent multi-threaded, dynamic general-purpose programming environment. It's best for creating applets and applications for the Internet, intranets and any other complex, distributed network.
- Perl Language Home Page
- Perl is an interpreted language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text files, and printing reports based on that information. It's also a good language for many system management tasks. The language is intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal).
- Python Language Home Page
- Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. It is often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java. Python combines remarkable power with very clear syntax. It has modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types, and dynamic typing. There are interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems (X11, Motif, Tk, Mac, MFC, STDWIN). New built-in modules are easily written in in C or C++. Python is also usable as an extension language for applications that need a programmable interface.
- Scheme Home page
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Scheme is a statically scoped and properly tail-recursive dialect of the Lisp programming language invented by Guy Lewis Steele Jr. and Gerald Jay Sussman. It was designed to have an exceptionally clear and simple semantics and few different ways to form expressions. A wide variety of programming paradigms, including imperative, functional, and message passing styles, find convenient expression in Scheme.
- REXX Home page
- REXX is a programming language designed by Michael Cowlishaw of IBM UK Laboratories. In his own words: "REXX is a procedural language that allows programs and algorithms to be written in a clear and structured way." REXX doesn't look that different from any other procedural language.
- NetRexx Home Page
- NetRexx is a new human-oriented programming language, designed as an effective and simple alternative to the Java language. With NetRexx, you can create programs and applets for the Java environment faster and more easily than by programming in Java. Using Java classes is especially easy in NetRexx, as the different types of numbers and strings that Java expects are handled automatically by the language.
- Expect
- Expect is a tool for automating interactive applications such as telnet, ftp, passwd, fsck, rlogin, tip, etc. Expect really makes this stuff trivial. Expect is also useful for testing these same applications. And by adding Tk, you can also wrap interactive applications in X11 GUIs.
- TCL
- Tcl (Tool Command Language) is two things: a scripting language and an interpreter for that language that is designed to be easy to embed into other applications.
- Reference.com
- Reference.COM makes it easy to find, browse, search, and participate in more than 150,000 newsgroups, mailing lists, and web forums.
- The List of Internet Service Providers
- An extensive list of Internet Service Providers organized by Country,State and Area code. Includes information about service rates,contacts, and customer ratings
- Internet Domains
- A list of the world internet domains.
- Open Market's The Internet Index
- An occasional collection of facts and statistics about the Internet and related activities, edited by Win Treese.
- The Bandwidth Conservation Society
- Tired of slow graphic loading times? The Bandwidth Conservation Society may be the answer.
- The Netcraft Web Server Survey
- The Netcraft Web Server Survey is a survey of Web Server software usage on Internet connected computers. We collect and collate as many hostnames providing an http service as we can find, and systematically poll each one with an HTTP request for the server name.
- Cyber Atlas -- The Internet Research Guide
- An Internet Marketing research guide, very useful information.
- The Search Engine Tutorial for Web Designers
- This document explains, how to design your pages, keeping the search engines in mind, and why it is necessary to do so inorder to gain the maximum benefit from search engines. Includes notes about Meta Tags
- Dictionary of PC Hardware and Data Communications Terms
- An online searchable dictionary hosted by O'reilly books
- Webreference.com
- Webreference is a Web site about creating Web sites. With daily Web news, original content, and over 2600 carefully selected and annotated sites.
- Conferencing on the World Wide Web
- A guide to software that powers discussion forums on the Web.
- IBM Redbooks
- Redbooks, named for their red covers, are "how to" books, written by very
experienced IBM professionals from all over the world. They are written at
the International Technical Support Organization (ITSO), which has
centers close to IBM's development divisions.
- IETF Request for Comments Documents (RFC's)
- Request for Comments (RFC) is a series of documents published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and cover a broad range of topics. The core topics are the Internet and the TCP/IP protocol suite.
- Wotsit's Format
- Since 1996 Wotsit's Format has been providing programmers with file format descriptions.
- Documentation from Netscape
- Whether describing how to create hierarchies of objects in JavaScript or offering sample code to copy and paste, DevEdge Online documentation includes a variety of references to guide and assist development using Netscape products and technologies. Includes complete Tag reference for HTML.
- NCSA HTTP
- NCSA HTTPd is an HTTP/1.0 compatible server for making hypertext and other documents available to Web browsers.
- Apache HTTP
- The Apache project has been organized in an attempt to answer some of the concerns regarding active development of a public domain HTTP server for UNIX. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server which provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards.
Helpful information is also available
at: Apache Week
- Arena browser
- A general-purpose browser built on top of the multithreaded version of the W3C Reference Library. Arena is designed to reflect the status of the HTML3 specifications, and currently supports tables, math, and an experimental style sheet mechanism.
- World Wide Web and HTMLTools
- From the W3 Organization
- World Wide Web Robots, Wanderers, and Spiders
- Extensive information about these automated cybernauts
- BotSpot
- BotSpot is a platform to use Bots and Intelligent Agents in your hobby,
special interest or business. BotSpot classifies Bots and Intelligent Agents by subject.
- External Viewer Information for Web Browsers
- Java Home Page
- Java(tm) is a simple, object-oriented, distributed, interpreted, robust, secure, architecture-neutral, portable, high-performance, multithreaded, dynamic, buzzword-compliant, general-purpose programming language. Java supports programming for the Internet in the form of platform-independent Java applets.
- Nerd's Heaven
- The Software Directory Directory. A directory of directories of sofware of all platforms."Shareware, freeware, public domain, high tech, you name it. Tons of stuff at every link."
- Computer Vendor Technical Support Phone Numbers
- From Diskovery
- The World Wide Web Consortium
- The World Wibe Web Consortium (W3C) works with the global community to produce specifications and reference software. W3C is funded by industrial members but its products are freely available to all. The Consortium is run by MIT LCS and by INRIA, in collaboration with CERN where the web originated.
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation
- News and Alerts to issues concerning freedom of speech on computer networks
- IAHC -- Internet International AD Hoc Committee
- The IAHC is a coalition of participants from the broad Internet community, working to satisfy the requirement for enhancements to the Internet's global Domain Name System (DNS).
- Smithsonian Computer History
- Smithsonian Computer History - Transcripts of interviews with Smithsonian
Computerworld Award Winners, including Bill Gates, Seymour Cray, and others.
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The Hacker Crackdown
- By Bruce Sterling. Fascinating history, stories, and issues.
- Man vs. Computer
- An interesting, online sports article featuring a brief history of Man vs. Computer chess games. Also, some great links to information about computer chess and computer vs. man competitions.
- The ENIAC Virtual Museum
- An online museum featuring the computer known as ENIAC
- Life On The Internet
- PBS Online edition of Life On The Internet, where we examine the ways people use this new medium and its impact on all of us. This site follows the weekly telvison series. Very nicely done.
- Hobbes' Internet Timeline v2.4a
- A comprehensive hypertext document on the History of the Internet
- Historic Computer Images
- A collection of photographs of some truely old machines
- User Interface
- USER INTERFACE (or is that "In-your-face"?) What is user interface, and what is superior (and why).
- Apple Support and Information
- The official Apple Support site, with over 50,000 items stored at this location!
- Apple Computer Higher Education Home Page: The Virtual Campus
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- Everthing Macintosh
- Extensive Macintosh (and some Apple II) collection.
- The Well Connected Mac
- Extensive Macintosh collection with pointers to many Mac resources
Macintosh Software
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U Mich Mac Archive
The University of Michigan Macintosh archive -- a very large collection of Macintosh software, with many mirror sites for alternate access.
- Info-Mac Hyper Archive
Software archive hosted by MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
- Latest Disinfectant
Anti-virus Freeware by John Norstad of Academic Computing and Network Services, Northwestern University
- Aladdin Systems
Makers of the archiving software "Stuffit". This site contains links to free donwloads of the "unstuffing" freeware.
Windows & PC
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Wim's BIOS page
- Information on identifying the bios of your computer, helpful for
bios upgrades
- SunSolve Online
Patches, support information
- Sun Microsystems
- SunWorld Online
A monthly online magazine of information on Sun Computers and Solaris OS.
- Solaris 2 FAQ
An excellent document of useful information for the Solaris Administrator.
- sunWHERE
sunWorld online's Hierarchical Elementary Resource Engine An index to online resources of interest to SPARC & Solaris users.
- Sun Freeware Sun Freeware Site
Lynx
Resources
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WWW Virtual Library of Communications & Telecommunications
From the WWW virtual library, many links from a Telecommunications perspective.
- The ATM Forum
The ATM Forum is a worldwide organization, aimed at promoting Asyncronous Transfer Mode (ATM) within the industry and the end user community.
- The Ethernet page
This page provides access to information about Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 local area network (LAN) technology. This includes both the original 10-Mbps system and the 100-Mbps Fast Ethernet system.
- Dan Kegel's Fast Ethernet Page
a collection of pointers to WWW and FTP documents about 100-Mbps Ethernet
- The InterOperability Lab (IOL)
The IOL's first mission is externally focused and is to provide testing services for vendors of computer communications devices. The IOL is involved in research and development work, but is mainly used by a community of over 70 vendors to verify the interoperability and/or conformance of their computer communications products.
- Introduction to TCP/IP
A very through discussion of the TCP/IP protocol
- The PC-Mac TCP/IP & NFS FAQ list
This list contains information that might help you decide upon a TCP/IP or NFS product for your PC or Macintosh.
- MBONE Information Web
Multicast Backbone on the Internet WAN administrator is a way to send real-time video and audio over the Internet without the hassle and cost of dedicated lines - Network Management
This server functions as the archive base for comp.dcom.net-management, as well as for a place to bring together references to other applications and servers. In addition, this site acts as a mirror site for applications, utilities and FAQs pertinent to Network Management.
- Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LDAP is a protocol for accessing online directory services over the TCP/IP network protocol, and can be used to access standalone LDAP directory services or directory services supporting the X.500 standard. It provides a standard way for Internet clients, applications and Web servers to access directory listings of thousands of Internet users.
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Windows 95 Networking FAQ
This FAQ concerns problems you might encounter with Win95's networking features - The Imap info center
IMAP is an acronym for "Internet Message Access Protocol." It defines a way for mail programs to access mailboxes on remote computers as if they were local, and supports all three modes of remote mailbox access (offline, online, and disconnected) without having to rely on less efficient general purpose file-access protocols such as NFS. IMAP provides a foundation for robust, scalable, and Internet-standards-based messaging infrastructures.
- DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocal is a new protocol for managing TCP/IP addresses. This page includes information on Netware/IP and the Netware DHCP server.
- DNSRD
DNS Resources Directory
Companies and Vendors
- Cisco Systems, Inc.
- IBM Networking
- Intel Communications & Networking
- Microdyne Network products
Hardware and software networking solutions for Data communications
- Novell
- Novell
The corporate site for Novell-- makers of Netware, a file server for DOS, OS/2, Windows, and Macintosh clients.
- Novell NetWire
Novell site for software upgrades, patches, and technical documentation for Netware.
- Qualcomm
Email sofware: Eudora light and Eudora Pro -- POP Clients for Windows and Macintosh.
- 3Com
Data networking systems that include: Adapters, Hubs, Switches, and routers.
- Electronic Mail
Email clients, Servers and documentation
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