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Comics about free and open source software

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Still remember the moment full web browsing came to the iPhone—felt like the entire web was finally in my pocket. deno.com/blog/history-o…
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We are saddened to share the passing of CHM Fellow Thomas Eugene Kurtz, co-creator of the BASIC programming language and Dartmouth Timesharing System. Read more about his remarkable life and contributions on our blog: hubs.li/Q02Yh8Xq0
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In addition, he refined the binary number system, which is the foundation of all digital computers we use today.
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In 1685, while enhancing Pascal's calculator with automatic multiplication and division capabilities, he described  a pinwheel calculator and invented the Leibniz wheel, which was used in all mechanical calculators for three centuries before the advent of electronic calculators.
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a German philosopher and mathematician who is known as a pioneer in the field of mechanical calculators.
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The Minix book Linus was reading is Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, by Andrew S. Tanenbaum.
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As I read the Minix book and started to understand Unix, I got a big enthusiastic jolt. Frankly, it’s never subsided. (I hope you can say the same about something.) - Linus Torvalds, Just for fun, 2001
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Pascal’s calculator could also perform multiplication and division through repeated addition or subtraction. In particular, he designed the carry mechanism, which adds 1 to 9 on one dial, and carries 1 to the next dial when the first dial changes from 9 to 0.
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Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, scientist, inventor, philosopher and Catholic writer who invented the first mechanical calculator in 1642. This calculator provided basic addition and subtraction functions.
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