"Computers, back then": the story of ARRA, the first Dutch computer

Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and Unity happened (2022)

A Plea for Lean Software (1995)

What if... someone made a Plan 9 that could run Linux apps?

Reviewing a Dell Linux PC 23 years ago

How to tell a mainframe from a minicomputer from a microcomputer

I've been playing with OS/2 again -- more on that soon -- but it was doomed from a young age

On the strange joys of mainframe OSes and legacy tech that has survived into mo

The pivotal importance of IBM's PS/2 range on computers, even today

A fresh look at FreeBSD

Everyone seems to forget why GNOME and GNOME 3 and Unity happened

Why MS Word jumped from version 2 to version 6

Why CP/M didn't have directory separators, and what if it had got them?

I think the GNOME designers are incompetent

The real reason that the first version of Windows NT was called 3.1