Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (October 16, 2023)
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<h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
<p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for October 16, 2023 :</p>
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GPL-3.0 licensed BIOS for Intel 8088 based computers
Summary: GitHub user skiselev has created an open-source BIOS for Intel 8088 based computers, including Micro 8088, NuXT, and Xi 8088 systems. The project has received contributions from various individuals, including fixes and enhancements. The BIOS images provided support different configurations and can be built using Linux or Windows instructions.
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Teaching Apple Cyberdog 1.0 new tricks (featuring OpenDoc)
Summary: Old Vintage Computing Research explores Apple's Cyberdog 1.0, a web browser and Internet suite with unique capabilities. Using Apple's version of OpenDoc embedding, developers could create their own components for the browser. Cyberdog demonstrated OpenDoc's object-oriented approach, where reusable viewer and editor components could be pulled into a document, maintaining their views and state. Despite its potential, OpenDoc failed to gain significant traction, and Cyberdog slid into obscurity.