Re:Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the ...
by DonHopkins on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @06:50PM
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Thanks! I'm in the process of bailing from Medium, and I'm moving my stuff to a reimplemention of HyperTIES, the hypermedia browser I developed for NeWS in 1987-1990 at the University of Maryland Human Computer Interaction Lab, and I'm dogfooding it to publish all my other stuff:
Here's a part of the demo I was giving at EduCom in October 1988 at the Sun booth on the trade show floor, across from the NeXT booth, where Steve Jobs and Bill Joy came by. Because he had shaved his beard, I didn't realize it was Bill Joy when I was showing him a demo of his head popping up! He took it pretty well though, better than Jobs.
https://hyperties.org
Ostensibly the site is about HyperTIES itself, but I'm publishing other stuff there too like a PDP-7 emulator!
https://hyperties.org/databases/pixie/pixie-live/
Here's a part of the demo I was giving at EduCom in October 1988 at the Sun booth on the trade show floor, across from the NeXT booth, where Steve Jobs and Bill Joy came by. Because he had shaved his beard, I didn't realize it was Bill Joy when I was showing him a demo of his head popping up! He took it pretty well though, better than Jobs.
https://hyperties.org/databases/playground/sun-founders-big-...
Here's a paper looking back at HyperTIES:
https://hyperties.org/databases/hyperties/a-look-back/