Making a CPU or indeed a whole computer system from scratch using discrete logic chips is by no means an unusual project, but it’s still one that requires quite a lot of technical ability and ...

Familiar names like Windows, macOS, and Linux dominate the world of operating systems. Beneath that mainstream layer, though, lives a shadowy ecosystem of niche projects that often carry strange ...

The world has lost another computer pioneer. Dennis Ritchie, the computer scientist who invented the C programming language and co-developped the Unix operating system, has died at the age of 70. Sign ...