Bill Gates acknowledges that the job offers from companies like Honeywell and General Electric were a significant "ego boost.

The Microsoft co-founder described his intense struggle with the decision, telling CNBC that he even tried convincing early programmer Ric Weiland to “take charge of things” so he could finish his ...

These were the first versions to run on the DEC PDP-11. That's the second machine that Unix ran on – a 16-bit DEC minicomputer, similar to the one Dave Plummer rebuilt last year. Unix was originally ...

Furthermore, the 5ESS switching system is being introduced into environments in which there have been increasing trends toward centralization and mechanization of operating procedures through the use ...

In an era of helicopter parenting and overly scheduled childhoods, Bill Gates’ new memoir “Source Code,” covering his life ...

What does it take to get a 47-year-old printer working? [Usagi Electric] shows us it’s not too hard, even if you don’t exactly know what you’re doing. When we last left this project, he ...

A researcher has recovered the oldest known machine-readable version of Unix yet, an early Unix version 2 release from 1972. The backstory is incredible. Now, however, forensic code researcher ...