CoreOS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, VMware, Rancher, and Microsoft put unique twists on the stripped-down, container-focused, cloud-scale operating system There’s an all-out war going on to see which OS will be ...

NEC and NEC Electronics have completed development of prototypes for a system LSI chip and operating systems (OS) for next-generation auto-information systems. The system LSI chip and OS were ...

The perennial favorite DIR command made its microcomputer debut in CP/M, and so did the eight-character maximum file name plus three-character extension that we lived with for so long. It’s not ...

Lordy, lordy, look who’s 40! Happy birthday, Unix — you’re looking great for your age. You certainly weren’t the first operating system on any platform, but you managed to stride from the minicomputer ...

Gary Kildall started Intergalactic Digital Research (later shortened to Digital Research or just DRI) and created the first microcomputer operating system, CP/M, used on many hobbyist personal ...

There was a time long, long ago, in a place far, far away when I lived day and night, night and day in something called CP/M. CP/M was one of the most influential early operating systems of the ...