Making a CPU or indeed a whole computer system from scratch using discrete logic chips is by no means an unusual project, but it’s still one that requires quite a lot of technical ability and ...

I booted UNIX V4 (first C rewrite) in a PDP‑11 emulator. It feels tactile—no backspace, staggered print, slower typing, and ...

Two of the most fundamental tools of the modern Unix-like command line, sudo and su, are being rewritten in the modern language Rust as part of a wider effort to get critical but aging infrastructure ...

Although now mostly known as a company who cornered the market on graphing calculators while only updating them once a decade or so, there was a time when Texas Instruments was a major force in the ...

One is the world's oldest Linux distro, the other isn't Linux at all. Each delivers superb stability - let's compare.

ITworld.com – Ok, well maybe the subject line of this column is stretching it just a wee bit. There’s no way that you can emulate more than a small fraction of Unix power at the DOS Command Prompt.

In response to "Sun readies open source desktop?" Keith Denton writes: I am not an open source zealot. Nor am I a Microsoft basher. I am just an observer. My company was the first large software ...