It was one of the most ambitious computer-product announcements in history. On April 2, 1987, at twin press conferences in New York and Miami, IBM unveiled its plans to reinvent the PC industry, which ...

One problem with building things using state-of-the-art techniques is that sometimes those that look like they will be “the next big thing” turn out to be dead ends. Next thing you know, that hot new ...

The Hobbes OS/2 Archive is a large collection of OS/2 software that has been publicly available for many years, even as OS/2 itself has mostly faded into obscurity. Yet now it would appear that the ...

In context: The early 1990s were tumultuous years for the home computer operating system market. Major corporations were vying for dominance in the emerging GUI-based paradigm, with Microsoft poised ...

Apple has released the iPhone OS 2.0 update for first-generation iPhones. Once the new software/firmware is installed, these devices can access the AppStore. In order to apply the iPhone OS 2.0 update ...

Apple has released iPhone OS 2.0.1 for the first-generation iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPod touch. The new release resolves several performance-related issues and bugs found in OS 2.0, though you wouldn't ...