In the era of floppy disks and early operating systems like CP/M and MS-DOS, A: and B: were reserved for floppy disk drives, ...

On September 14, 2000, Microsoft released Windows ME, the last version of Windows based on the operating system dinosaur MS-DOS. What was next?

Floppy disks, long dismissed as obsolete relics of the past, have unexpectedly returned to the Linux development spotlight. For the first time in nearly three years, a new patch has been submitted to ...

Back in March, we covered the story of Davis Lu, a disgruntled coder who programmed a logic bomb into his employers’ systems. His code was malicious in the extreme, designed as it was to regularly ...

That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started releasing some of its classic operating systems and programs as open ...

Pro Floppy disks live on - Linux drivers get first update for years, perhaps signalling a comeback for the much-loved system? Pro I journeyed into the web archive of an iconic consumer electronics ...

Minicomputers were mid-range, general-purpose computers in the age of mainframes, the latter taking up large rooms and ...