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A Berkeley base with System V features: how DEC built Ultrix

A bookseller and physics student who wrote about wikis and peer-to-peer

A calendar monopoly, a French-language court academy and Einstein in 1915

A design that spread: the IAS machine and its many copies

A device that proves itself to the cloud

A laptop built for the Space Shuttle and the government

A left hand on film: how Edwin Catmull began with a one-minute animation

A merged university and the early stored-program computer

A multitasking DOS that few OEMs wanted

A painter who taught a program to colour

A production line idea inside the first operating system for the IBM 704

A prototype in a week: how the BBC Micro and BBC BASIC came together

A QNX foundation for the BlackBerry PlayBook

A real prize and a disputed reputation

A royal body and its rules

A simple idea that took decades to get right

A tea shop company builds an office computer

A telephone laboratory that gave computing its working tools

A terminal that felt like your own computer

A trademark rename and a platform's search for applications

A Unix built on Mach: how OSF/1 answered the Unix wars

A Unix port and a TCP/IP source at a young regional university

Adi Shamir as both builder and breaker of ciphers

After TCP/IP: Vint Cerf's Push to Network Other Planets and Guard Against a Digital Dark Age

After the Macintosh: the information appliance and the humane interface

Alike in function, incompatible in practice: CP/M-86 beside DOS

An essay published after his death, and a theorem that outgrew its author

An open algorithm from the noisy channel

An operating system that assumed the network

Andrew Ng: From the Stanford Classroom to the AI Lab

Atomiswave: a low cost arcade board for small venues

Beyond RSA: selection, learning and honest ballots in the work of Ron Rivest

Bill Joy: the weekend legend and the documented record

Binning, hidden headroom and the limits of stability testing

Bounded Rationality and the Case Against Perfectly Rational Decisions

Breaking the 64 kilobyte limit: what CP/M 3 changed and when it arrived

Brian Kernighan and the work of explaining Unix and C

BSD/OS: a proprietary Unix built on open BSD code

Cairo: a codename that became a collection of technologies

Cardano's dice and the cubic dispute

Charles Simonyi and the problem of organizing programmers

Choosing between a hash table and a search tree

ChorusOS and the companies that carried it

Clean Code and the debate over small functions

Coherent and the question of what makes a Unix clone

Commodore's Unix workstation bet and why it did not pay off

Complexity theory without machine models

Computer science in a former science library at Chicago

Comrie, punched cards and the motion of the Moon

Debugging the Ferranti Mark 1: the programming work of Mary Lee Woods