Evidence

Format Web Page

"Quake used a dedicated QuakeC codebase for game logic, and id Software continues to publish QuakeC source code for the base campaign and expansions."

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Source title Quake Rerelease QuakeC Source Code

Source authors id Software

Source year 2021

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"id Software’s September 1996 Quake Development CD supplied source data and utilities and explicitly supported modifying data in place or in an add-on directory."

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Source title README.TXT

Source authors John Carmack

Source year 1996

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Doom was initially distributed through USENET and quickly developed a player culture of modifying levels and appearance."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 7: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY BASIC, LAN Parties, & Screwdrivers

Source title Graphics & Games | Timeline of Computer History | Computer History Museum

Source authors Computer History Museum

Source year 1993

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"By 1964, DEC Debugging Tape on the PDP-1 supported online debugging, breakpoints, symbolic inspection, and immediate program modification."

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Source title DEC Debugging Tape (DDT)

Source authors A. Kotok

Source year 1964

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Online paper / PDF

"Across many application and operating-system releases, Windows Error Reporting found a Pareto distribution in which a small number of bugs accounted for most error reports."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 7: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY BASIC, LAN Parties, & Screwdrivers

Source title Debugging in the (Very) Large: Ten Years of Implementation and Experience

Source authors Galen Hunt; Kirk Glerum; Kinshuman Kinshumann; Steve Greenberg; Gabriel Aul; Vince Orgovan; Greg Nichols; David Grant; Gretchen Loihle

Source year 2009

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"Windows Error Reporting automatically classified error reports into buckets that Microsoft used to prioritize developer effort and fixes."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 7: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY BASIC, LAN Parties, & Screwdrivers

Source title Debugging in the (Very) Large: Ten Years of Implementation and Experience

Source authors Galen Hunt; Kirk Glerum; Kinshuman Kinshumann; Steve Greenberg; Gabriel Aul; Vince Orgovan; Greg Nichols; David Grant; Gretchen Loihle

Source year 2009

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Microsoft’s Watson data showed that roughly 20 percent of the most frequently occurring crash buckets accounted for more than 80 percent of experienced crashes."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 7: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY BASIC, LAN Parties, & Screwdrivers

Source title 061. BSoD to Watson: The Reliability Journey

Source authors Steven Sinofsky

Source year 2022

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Earlier PCs routinely crashed, froze, hung, and lost work, and PC reliability improved substantially over roughly two decades."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 7: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY BASIC, LAN Parties, & Screwdrivers

Source title 061. BSoD to Watson: The Reliability Journey

Source authors Steven Sinofsky

Source year 2022

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Bulletin board systems gave personal-computer users a way to offer content and services remotely over modems."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 7: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY BASIC, LAN Parties, & Screwdrivers

Source title Bulletin Board Service (BBS) software - CHM Revolution

Source authors Computer History Museum

Source year 1994

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"Digital Research sold CP/M disks by mail order and generated orders through advertisements in Byte and Dr. Dobb’s Journal."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 7: JUVENILE DELINQUENCY BASIC, LAN Parties, & Screwdrivers

Source title Fifty Years of the Personal Computer Operating System

Source authors David Laws

Source year 2024

Confidence high

Importance high