Unix v4 clawed back from a 1970s tape
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50-odd years later, the bits still had teeth.

Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has pulled the contents from a more than half-century-old tape found at the University of Utah last month and recreated Unix v4, the first version in which the kernel was written in the then-new C programming language.

AM4 returns as DDR5 prices bite
Published in PC Hardware


Old DDR4 rigs are trendy again.

DDR5 pricing is turning PC building into a bad joke, so many people are crawling back to the older AM4 platform.

Maingear tells DDR5 to jog on with BYO RAM
Published in PC Hardware


Memory prices are bonkers so punters get the screwdriver

Maingear has decided that DDR5 pricing madness can do one and is letting buyers supply their own memory instead.

5K gaming is too hard, even for an RTX 5090D
Published in Gaming


Too many pixels, not enough puff

Some panel makers are pushing 5K gaming monitors at punters, but the reality is that normal players will be waiting a while before they make any sense outside marketing decks.

Washington says China is being unfair about chips
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You are supposed to be victims of our capitalist might

Washington has fired another broadside at Beijing’s chip ambitions while pushing the tariff detonator a couple of years down the road.