Computer archaeology lovers among the audience are in for a rare treat in these challenging times. Remember that Unix v4 tape ...

If ERP systems were judged the way consumer apps are, most would have been deleted years ago. And yet, organisations continue ...

Archivist Al Kossow of Bitsavers, who led the technical recovery, described the process as "easy" as such efforts go. The tape, he explained, had "a pretty ...

At the core of every AI coding agent is a technology called a large language model (LLM), which is a type of neural network ...

Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has successfully retrieved the contents of the over-half-a-century old ...

Unix died because of endless incompatibilities between versions. Linux succeeded on servers and everywhere else because it ...

The sudo is a special program that allows you to elevate the ability of a normal user to run administrative tasks, without giving away the root user's password in Linux and Unix operating systems. In ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A research team at the University of Utah uncovered a rare piece of computing history. Aleks Maricq, research associate in the Flux Research Group, discovered a version of the ...

The first time I ran any Linux operating system was when I took an introduction to programming courses. Ubuntu was installed on all the computers in the lab because it was lightweight and ...

VMware offers a very comprehensive selection of virtualization products, with Fusion for the Apple Mac and Workstation for the PC. Despite the name difference, these two products offer effectively the ...