Computer History News Today

yes, mr. netanyahu is undergoing a medical assessment in hospital, but said to be well. a statement from his office says the prime minister suffered slight dizziness earlier in the day and his personal doctor advised him to get that checked out. the initial assessment was that he was dehydrated. according to some earlier local media reports, mr. netanyahu was fully conscious as he entered the hospital and he walked into the emergency room and he has not been incapacitated in any way as...

boeing said in a statement that the allegations were thoroughly investigated and that an analysis determined that there were no safety concerns. the firm said its reviewing the newly released documents and will thoroughly investigate any new claim. turning to the chip industry, shares micron have fallen by around 7% in extended trading in new york. the firm beat estimates for the fiscal third quarter, powered by the artificial intelligence boom. however it forecasted revenue that was w...

Business owners can better build their company savings accounts with these seven banks that offer competitive CD rates.

C. Gordon Bell, a technology visionary whose computer designs for Digital Equipment Corporation fueled the emergence of the minicomputer industry in the 1960s, died May 17 at his home in Coronado, Calif. He was 89.

Yes, there's a PID 0! An explanation of what it is, and a quick walk through linux early boot code.

Corrections that appeared in print on Friday, May 24, 2024.

As an engineer for DEC in 1965, Bell played a pivotal role in shrinking room-sized computer systems into minicomputers. An $18,000 prototype Bell created inspired the compact PCs we enjoy today. Bell later started the Computer History Museum.

How Gary Kildall pioneered the PC operating system but lost the business to Microsoft

It's hard to overstate how revolutionary BASIC was in the early 1960s computing landscape. At that time, computers were highly specialized black boxes confined to corporate, government,...

Microsoft, in partnership with IBM, has released the source code of MS-DOS 4.00 under the open-source MIT license. This release comes a decade after Microsoft first made the source code for MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 available to the public through the Computer History Museum.