Is IBM considering an OS/2 redo? Should IBM consider a return of OS/2? A systems integrator close to the computing giant swears there’s a move afoot inside IBM to reintroduce the operating system — revered by some, reviled by many –before it faded out more than 10 years ago. He has heard this from inside [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Retrocomputing category.
Multics
(via mit.edu) Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service) was a mainframe timesharing operating system that began at MIT as a research project in 1965. It was an important influence on operating system development. … In order to preserve the ideas and innovations that made Multics so important in the development of computer systems, Bull HN [...]
Fortran vs. Algol
I recently stumbled upon Google Trends. I though it might be interesting to compare the search volume for the first two computer languages I learned: Fortran vs. Algol fortran algol The results are not too surprising, since Fortran is still widely used by scientists and engineers. Algol, which, according to The Retrocomputing Museum, is “the [...]
Slide Rules
(via email) Derek’s Virtual Slide Rule Gallery (A gallery of clickable simulated slide rules) I guess Alan Turing was right — you really can emulate any computer on any other computer.
Algol 60
I recently stumbled upon NASE A60, an open source Algol 60 interpreter. Having learned a more “modern” Algol (on Burroughs computers in the early/mid 80′s), I think it’s kind of neat to revisit this language, which, according to The Retrocomputing Museum, is “the common ancestor of C, Pascal, Algol-68, Modula, Ada, and most other conventional [...]
