One way or another, you’re interacting with operating systems. Your smartphone uses one, and your tablet and laptop do as well. However, little is said about how the ways we interact with our ...

The history of computing is littered with the remains of forgotten operating systems—some rendered obsolete by technological progress, some that never quite captured the public imagination, and some ...

Since then, there have been occasional, abortive attempts at redefining the way users interact with a computer, but most of the attempts at writing new operating systems always seem to reinvent the ...

So as you may have noticed from last episode, computers keep getting faster and faster, and by the start of the 1950s they had gotten so fast that it often took longer to manually load programs via ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — What began as a forgotten tape in a storage room at the University of Utah has now become a restored piece of digital history. Experts at the Computer History Museum in ...

When it comes to personal computer operating systems, or an “OS,” you can count them on one hand. There’s the Windows OS that you find on more personal computers than any other. Then there’s Apple ...

Happy Birthday, Linux. At 30 years old, you have made quite a reputation for yourself. Having spirited the rise of open-source software, you have turned the world of proprietary computing upside down.

A post on the social media platform Mastodon shows an old tape with the label "UNIX Original from Bell Labs v4 (see manual for format)". Above this photo is a post from Rob Ricci which says, "While ...