links for 2008-01-14

• DIY CPU demo’d running Minix
  “”Bill Buzbee offered the first public demonstration of the Minix OS — a cousin of Linux — running on his homebrew minicomputer, today at the Vintage Computer Festival in Mountain View, Calif. Magic-1, built with 74-series TTL ICs using wire-wrap constr
  (tags: os nostalgia via minix popular ttl cool cpu diy homebrew hardware electronics)
• TrimSpreadsheet - trimpath - Google Code
  “a lightweight open-source JavaScript spreadsheet engine. It let’s you work with spreadsheet data right in your web browser. As with all TrimPath components, the ”’TrimSpreadsheet”’ engine is written as 100% standards-based JavaScript and CSS. Spreadshe
  (tags: cool spreadsheet javascript source simple small declarative visicalc clone free)
• VisiCalc Executable for the IBM PC
  “It is only 27,520 bytes long (smaller than many GIFs and JPGs on the web).

  This version of the program is very similar to the original VisiCalc that first came out on the Apple II in 1979. It has a few extra features: a “Home” key, support for four ar

  (tags: spreadsheet cool pc 8088 history dos minimal)
• trimpath - Google Code
  Next Action, Junction framework, templates, query
  (tags: javascript framework mvc cool gears template sql api gtd synch json)
• del.icio.us/url/83876f21a3c29f409d7bc0b0265249c0
  “A Paper on how graphical Text editors can be implemented.”
  (tags: editor wp how ibm history 1986)