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Rebooting A Retro PDP-11 Workstation - and Its Classic 'Venix' UNIX

Slashdot 22 Mar 2025
You'd wonder how rogue processes could be prevented from stomping on each other in such systems when neither the Intel 8086/8088 nor the IBM PC nor the PC/XT had a memory management unit, and the answer was not to try and just hope for the best.
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Is the shine coming off Nvidia stock?

The Motley Fool 22 Mar 2025
Back in the 1970s, mainframe computing was king, and IBM was at the centre of that universe. With the invention of the PC in the early 80s, the company failed to appreciate its threat ... IBMs motto back in the day was ‘Think!’.
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The History of IBM: From Punch Cards to Global Technology Leader

The Call 21 Mar 2025
the IBM Personal Computer (PC). Launched in 1981, the IBM PC legitimized personal computing for businesses. However, IBM made a fateful decision to outsource its operating system to Microsoft and its ...
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Dell still tops the pile as it deepens enterprise storage offer

Computer Weekly 05 Mar 2025
Dell was founded in 1984 by Michael Dell in Texas, where he started to sell IBM-compatible PCs. The company made big gains from the early consumer PC market and saw off competitors, but by the early ...
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How IBM CEO Arvind Krishna Is Thinking About AI and Quantum Computing

Time 02 Mar 2025
IBM was one of the giants of 20th-century computing. It helped design the modern PC, and created the first AI to defeat a human champion in the game of chess ... IBM built Deep Blue, the first chess AI to beat a human champion, in the 1990s.
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