@bhaskark_la if i remember correctly, ethernet and it’s use of csma/ca, was based on wireless networking concepts developed in the early 1970s as part of the ALOHAnet project
Two simultaneous links about Commodore 64 stuff on Hacker News right now - this one is about how to achieve a full-screen scrolling bitmap with streaming data directly from the disk drive: https://t.co/zeGwfVlZVC
"Despite being discontinued in 2005, the Boa web server continues to be implemented by different vendors across a variety of IoT devices and popular software development kits (SDKs). " 🤔
https://t.co/Kf6X6fNfGZ
This is an incredibly impressive technical feat: https://t.co/xeFaLRdNes
The game Eye of the Beholder, but for the Commodore 64. Relased today. In 2022.
Full source code here: https://t.co/U5f5tayxB4
The idea comes from the Sentinel Value / Sentinel Pattern in programming: when you have a special value to denote (for example) the last value in a list. Null-terminated strings is an example of this programming pattern.