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Today’s operating systems pose a significant barrier to a number of promised exciting innovations in computer hardware and applications — from personal assistant robots to autonomous vehicles to edge ...

A new cloud-based operating system for all kinds of computer is being developed by researchers in China. Details of the TransOS system are reported in a forthcoming special issue of the ...

Researchers Store Full Computer Operating System on DNA Researchers encoded six files into DNA: a full computer OS, a movie, a $50 Amazon gift card, a computer virus, a Pioneer plaque, and a 1948 ...

News about Linux, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Microsoft battled Digital Research’s CP/M-based operating systems for the next few years, but as Ruffer and Waldman note, Microsoft was the leading producer of computer languages and had control over ...

Dodge7's recent thread about how he expected more from computers given the Amiga, Atari in the 1980's got me thinking about the next, possibly mythical evolutionary step in computing. And as I sit ...