The Commodore Amiga is one of the best-loved computers of the 1980s: The Register celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2015.

Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at a PDP-11. Peter Hamer [CC BY-SA 2.0] Last week the computing world celebrated an important anniversary: the UNIX operating system turned 50 years old. What was ...

If you’ve ever combed boxes of old tech detritus in search of a nugget of pure gold, we know you’ll appreciate the excitement of discovering, in a dusty University of Utah storeroom, a tape labelled ...

A heritage of dumb terminals and 1980s workstations still leaves Linux rooted in text tools and unconventional window ...

Introduction"Python is made of C"—this fact has become a kind of common sense for modern engineers. However, that does not ...

The PDP-11 is a family of minicomputers from Digital Equipment Corporation that became a fixture of computing labs and early Unix history. Plummer's machine is real 1980s hardware, still running a ...

The interview portion of this article is a creative work based on historical facts.[Narration—An Era When You Had to Rebuild Software Every Time You Changed Computers]Today, we can use the same ...

A fascinating little point made in a much longer piece about the smartphone wars. One that makes me wonder whether Unix can now be considered to be the most successful operating system of all time.