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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 ...

In many ways, the modern computer era began in the New Englander Motor Hotel in Greenwich, Conn. It was there in 1961 that a task force of top IBM engineers met in secret to figure out how to build ...

Mainframe computing is having a moment — again. Nearly 60 years after the first IBM System/360 debuted as a mainframe platform, it continues to evolve in ways that defy expectations, powering critical ...

Two big things happened in the world of text-based disk operating systems in June 1994. The first is that Microsoft released MS-DOS version 6.22, the last version of its long-running operating system ...