You’ve heard how Digital Research flubbed the operating system deal with IBM. You’ve heard lots of old-time industry stories in our previous two conversations with Tom Rolander who was Gary Kildall’s best friend and operating system pioneer at Digital Research. [See the full post…]

Sun Microsystems leaped ahead of rivals this week with what it claims is the world’s fastest server microprocessor. Analysts such as Nathan Brookwood from Insight64 were impressed. Sun also said that it would open up all of its business units [See the full post…]

In the second part of Tom Rolander‘s conversations with us about early computer industry history we head to a restaurant in Pacific Grove (near Monterey, CA) and hear more stories about industry history. Buzz Bruggeman, CEO of Activewords, gets [See the full post…]

Crossloop is a great free way to take control of a friend’s computer and help them out. Here Tom Rolander, CTO of Crossloop, demonstrates how it can be used to help your friends and family get over their computer troubles. [See the full post…]

You’ve heard the story. Bill Gates and Microsoft became a hugely successful business after it bought DOS from a small computer store in Seattle and licensed it to IBM. But what really happened? Did you know that Bill Gates didn’t [See the full post…]