tim lindner's personal blog

Sometimes Apple Computer really amazes me. In 1980 a small operating system company from Des Moines, Iowa created an operating system called OS-9. It was a good operating system geared specifically for the new 6809 microprocessor. Microware would port their OS to new chips as…

There is a lot of speculation coming out of Robert X. Cringely, including some grounding from John Gruber. I'd like to comment on it. Cringely says a new kernel is coming for Intel Mac OS 10.5. Gruber says Apple would never release a PowerPC 10.5…

My father died this morning. He was 120 miles away in a hospital. My mother was with him. The event was wholly expected, so I dealt with this a long time ago.

I tried to make a commitment to post something here at least once a month. I failed for March, this doesn't count.

Saturday, Feburary 18 was an unexpectedly fun day. My daughters pleaded with me to take them out, and after a few hours of finishing a project on the computer we all decided to go to the park. My wife was still asleep and even she…