Software

… are in the computer you are looking at right now?

You probably don’t know the Red Baron Operating System, “R-Boss” (RBOS).

… and this is bad because? I’m switching from “Old cranky that overheats” running Winders XPat to “New and obscure that isn’t supposed to do that (overheating), at least not until I really need it” computer running Windows 7.

Back when 300 baud dial-up was new – yeah, that’s a long time ago, all right – we had a “guest” login to a mainframe where a friend worked.

There is a country, which I will allow to remain nameless, that receives a lot of “off-shoring” of software engineering from US companies.

My first programming job was for the American Express Space Bank at the end of the 1960s.

Once upon a time, there were three RTOSes named VRTX, pSOS and VxWorks.

Rarely, only very rarely, do I teach a group that is close to if not completely indifferent to the topic at hand.