This digital fossil took me back in time when computers played Tic-Tac-Toe on paper.

Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer ...

Whoever said the first casualty of war is truth would be surprised to find that apothegm quoted in a dispute between systems vendors. But it is an apt description of current events. The SCO Group has ...

There was a time when giant computers freely occupied the back warehouses of the research institutions and major universities of the Earth. These computers, maintained by armies of grad students, were ...