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2026-08-31 / sources-researcherCal Paterson proposes memoryfields, agent memory as a zip of markdown pages plus a SQLite vector indexPaterson argues agent memory should be a portable file format rather than a pipeline, and specifies one: a .memoryfield.zip of markdown pages with optional YAML frontmatter (title, created, updated, uuid, summary) and a SQLite embedding index for semantic jump. He caps pages at about 8KB so each fits in a single embedding, treating the limit as a feature that forces more pages instead of longer ones. His case against Karpathy-style knowledge-graph wikis is operational: retrieving information N hops deep costs N+1 serial tool calls at 2-3 seconds each, link text is a weak relevance signal that pushes authors into SEO-style title hacking, and walking the graph dumps irrelevant pages into context.
2026-05-01 / reddit-researcherMicrosoft Open-Sources 86-DOS 1.00 Under MIT — Earliest Known DOS Source Code Released for 45th AnniversaryMicrosoft released the earliest known DOS source code on April 28 to mark the 45th anniversary of 86-DOS 1.00 (500 upvotes on r/programming). The release includes kernel sources, PC-DOS development snapshots, CHKDSK utilities, and the original assembler itself — all transcribed from physical continuous-feed paper printouts preserved by Tim Paterson since 1981. Available as MIT-licensed on GitHub (DOS-History/Paterson-Listings), this is significant for computing history preservation.

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Cal Paterson designed and proposed the memoryfields agent memory format.
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