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A proper utilization of these phenomena and effects leads to the new technology of relativistic engineering, in which light-matter interactions in the relativistic regime drives the development of laser-driven accelerator science.

The bulk of the paper is way beyond me, but it was still an interesting read.

The pen that can write upside down (likely the Fisher Space Pen) was completely privately developed and was not funded or supported by the government or space program.

Perhaps the reason you don't see many spinoffs from the space program is that they are literally all around you. You can't see the forest for the trees, so to speak. Miniaturization is often quoted, and it is quite true. There are many other examples, many in medicine and industry.

I think there may be a few things you have overlooked but they are easy enough to find.

Jim

There is an embedded linux project, ELKS that is planning a port for the Zilog z80 (the CPU of the Osborne), but I don't think they're there yet.

Just my guess, but BSD probably has too big of a foot print. Besides which, it is dying. =)

They were supported by Navigator 1.1 in March 1995. Microsoft's patent filing references Netscape's spec, including this explanation:

This simple mechanism provides a powerful new tool which enables a host of new types of applications to be written for web-based environments. Shopping applications can now store information about the currently selected items, for fee services can send back registration information and free the client from retyping a user-id on next connection, sites can store per-user preferences on the client, and have the client supply those preferences every time that site is connected to.

and we could base such an installer on the standard ./configure && make && sudo make install procedure. Such a program could find out what options ./configure takes and present them in a nice gui.

Those that fail to learn from history are forced to repeat it.

RedHat has announced this before with Project JOLT. They even had a mailing list setup for the RedHat Java Open Language Toolkit. It didn't take long for them to give up on it. What is different about this time?

Description: A few very small standard utilities. Assembler versions of some of them are included for i386/Linux (both a.out and ELF), Sparc/Solaris2 and Sparc/SunOS4. Portable C versions of all the utilities are are also included. You need these utilities, and there is no excuse for not having the hyper-efficient (and small!) binaries that result from use of assembler.

Interesting concept. Linux's standard utilities are unnecessarily bloated, replacing them with smallutils allows a respectable distribution to fit on a 1.44MB floppy. According to the documentation, these utilities are included:

• false
• link
• pwd
• sln
• sync
• true
• uname
• unlink

• Lisp
• Forth, and this other Forth one and this one. mmm forth, every good programmer should learn this beauty.
• x86 Assembly pretty boring stuff
• Pascal, well not my favorite either
• Cobol (this list while compile in cobol).
• Fortan. They say it still outcranks C in some areas if you can believe it. (I don't)