If you are familiar with ARM processors, you may know of their early history at the 1980s British home computer manufacturer Acorn. The first physical ARM system was a plug-in co-processor development ...

Often when we see projects using embedded Linux we think of them as not being hardware hacks. But this is a horse of an entirely different color. [Matt Porter] is leveraging a little known feature to ...

PragmatIC Semiconductor’s recent announcement about developing a flexible version of the 6502 processor takes tech history buffs on the road to nostalgia. The 8-bit processor and its variants became ...

We'd venture that most folks under 40 or so aren't aware that Bill Gates and Paul Allen, former head honchos of Microsoft, actually started their empire as hardcore programmers, and darn good ones at ...

I, like many of my colleagues, got my first taste of personal computing on the Commodore PET and Apple IIe. Way back in the early ‘80s, my elementary school was equipped with a room full of Commodore ...

In 2022, World Computer Day has honoured the 6502 processor, powering Apple 1 and II, Atari, Commodore 64, Nintendo Entertainment System, the BBC Micro and others, following on from last year's ...

Acer is showing off a new laptop at IFA in Germany this week that’s of the first laptops designed for Intel’s not-yet-available Panther Lake processors. Microsoft has open sourced one of the very ...

As if it wasn’t enough to construct a 6502-based computer on breadboards, its creator has now added a virtual reality peripheral. Well, you can color me impressed, because I just received an email ...