Although now mostly known as a company who cornered the market on graphing calculators while only updating them once a decade or so, there was a time when Texas Instruments was a major force in the ...

Before we even get started with this topic, let me acknowledge all of you readers out there who are wondering why I didn’t call this week’s column “Shoving Technology Backwards”. Granted, few of us ...

Several readers took me to task for referring to Linux, BSD, and OS X as Unix. Lighten up, folks — I’m on your side. No one feels more protective of Unix’s heritage than I. Unix has a rich legacy that ...

WTF?! Nintendo positioned the Famicom to feel more like a computer than its Western counterpart – the NES – hence the name Family Computer. The additional storage and memory from the Disk System ...

For decades, Linux and BSD have stood as two dominant yet fundamentally different branches of the Unix-like operating system world. While Linux distributions, such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora, have ...