These days we are blessed with multicore 64-bit monster CPUs that can calculate an entire moon mission’s worth of instructions in the blink of an eye. Once upon a time, though, the state of the art ...

Can you believe it has been 50 years since Intel released the Intel 4004 processor, the world's first commercially available microprocessor. 50 years from that day, we have Intel's new 12th Gen Core ...

[Scott Baker] is at it again and this time he has built a 4-bit single board computer based on the Intel 4004 microprocessor. In the board design [Scott] covers the CPU (both the Intel 4004 and 4040 ...

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The big picture: Intel forever changed the trajectory of computing - and really, human history - with the introduction of the first commercially available microprocessor. The Intel 4004 launched 50 ...

Computers have been around for decades, longer than most of us, and there's a big difference between a CPU from 2024 versus one from 2014. Rewind the clock to 1971, and you have the first commercially ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Bill McGurn and Mene Ukueberuwa. Images: Acton Institute/AP/AFP via Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly The world changed on Nov.

Linux is a modern operating system that supports all of the latest technologies, but it's also a legacy-friendly system that dates back to 1991. If it's a computer, you can probably run Linux on it, ...

My first CPU was the Z80 in a ZX Spectrum. I didn't learn assembler on it. Strictly Sinclair BASIC. I learned assembler on an 8086 (XT clone). Some buddies and I were working on a side scroller in ...

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