Why it matters: The instruction manual for one of the world's oldest digital computers has been unearthed. With it, researchers now have a complete understanding of how the early computer functioned.

A computer cannot function without an operating system unless it is an embedded system. An operating system is a collection or suite of programs that manages and controls the computer. It keeps the ...

If you are limiting yourself to only 16 instructions, which ones should you chose, and how do you manage without the ones that fall by the wayside? In my previous column on our project to build a ...

There’s always some debate around what style of architecture is best for certain computing applications, with some on the RISC side citing performance per watt and some on the CISC side citing ...