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Why The Shutdown?

Why do we need to shutdown a computer and not simply turn it off? […]

Memory Of The Past

A quick historical review of how computer memory evolved over time. […]

All My Operating Systems.

My very first computer was a mainframe IBM 360. Well, it wasn’t mine, nobody owned a computer back in the seventies. The 360 was the mainframe available at the university where I studied Electronics Engineering, the University of Palermo, in Italy. It ran under an operating system that was called DOS, an acronym for […]