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Photo of an IBM PS/2, mid-MS-DOS 4 install.
Newly open-sourced MS-DOS 4 installed on an IBM Personal System/2 with a 16 MHz Intel 386 CPU — took 70 minutes to build

By Christopher Harper Published

MS-DOS 4's open source release gets a branch confirmed to work on the seminal IBM PS/2.

Operating Systems
IBM materials on Eagle and Quantum System Two
IBM to invest $730 million in Canadian semiconductor sector: Report

By Anton Shilov Published

IBM invests in a Canada-based production facility.

Tech Industry
A Commodore 64
Commodore 64 claimed to outperform IBM's quantum system — sarcastic researchers say 1 MHz computer is faster, more efficient, and decently accurate

By Mark Tyson Published

A paper released during the SIGBOVIK 2024 conference details an attempt to simulate the IBM ‘quantum utility’ experiment on a Commodore 64. The authors claim the experiment was a success.

Quantum Computing
Copilot Key and old computer
Windows Copilot key is secretly from the IBM era — but you can remap it with the right tools

By Avram Piltch Published

The Copilot key comes on brand new AI PCs but it actually outputs as an ancient keyboard combo from 122-key terminal keyboards of the 1980s or 1990s.

Windows
Graphic from AMD's "Software Techniques for Managing Speculation in AMD Processors", used as a reference point for Ghostrace and Spectre.
GhostRace CPU vulnerability threatens all major architectures

By Christopher Harper Published

GhostRace is a cross-platform vulnerability that applies to CPUs made by Intel, AMD, Arm, and IBM that echoes the Spectre vulnerability from six years ago.

Cybersecurity
Martin Goetz
Martin Goetz, First to Patent Software, Dies at 93

By Anton Shilov Published

Martin Goetz, who secured the first U.S. software patent, has passed away at 93, leaving behind a legacy that reshaped the software industry's legal and commercial landscape.

Tech Industry
Enthusiast grafts HDMI port onto ISA graphics card
Enthusiast Grafts HDMI Port Onto ISA Graphics Card

By Mark Tyson Published

A retro gaming enthusiast has added an HDMI port to an ISA graphics card as there are now fewer monitors around with legacy analog ports.

GPUs
Render for IBM's 64-tyle hybrid chip
IBM Touts Analog-Digital Hybrid Chip for AI Inferencing

By Francisco Pires Published

Improving energy efficiency through blast-from-the-past analog circuits.

Artificial Intelligence
Brutman Labs web server
39-Year-Old 4.77 MHz DOS Web Server Hits 2,500 Hours of Uptime

By Mark Tyson Published

A 39-year-old IBM PCjr with a 4.77 MHz CPU has been serving web pages for the last 2,500 hours with no reboots.

Servers
IBM Quantum materials
IBM Unlocks Quantum Utility With its 127-Qubit "Eagle" Quantum Processing Unit

By Francisco Pires Published

There's little quantum without standard, it seems.

Quantum Computing
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