<![CDATA[Stories by Wesley Wei on Medium]]> https://medium.com/@wesley-wei?source=rss-63952cf97e1b------2 https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/fit/c/150/150/1*QiU92e85AL8RqMb5aRk19A.jpeg Stories by Wesley Wei on Medium https://medium.com/@wesley-wei?source=rss-63952cf97e1b------2 Medium Fri, 06 Nov 2026 04:35:26 GMT <![CDATA[He Built Universal Binaries for Linux in 2009. In 2025 He Locked the Thread Asking Him to Try Again]]>

He built what Mac developers mocked Linux for lacking, and years later said he would never go through that fight again

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For two years the original took in about $63 a month while its Rust rewrite found backers

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Nokia's CEO said MeeGo was finished even if the N9 was a hit, and the engineers who built it took it out the door

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The foundry started on other companies' leftovers with one willing partner. It now books $122 billion a year, and Intel is a customer

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He wanted six bits for System/360 and lost. In 1970 he left IBM and sold System/370-compatible mainframes built on the eight-bit byte

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She worked under a new name for three decades before a historian's website brought her design back to her

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One became Android on three billion devices while the other ended in a $7.6 billion write-down

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Apple switched chips twice with a translator called Rosetta, and after macOS 27 the second one falls silent for all but a few old games

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VMware and Cambridge's Xen both ran guest kernels in x86's ignored ring 1, and Amazon built EC2 on one of them.

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