News
Undo in Vi and its successors
4+ hour, 5+ min ago (621+ words) So vi only has one level of undo, which is simply no longer fit for the times we live in now, and also wholly unnecessary given even the least powerful devices that might need to run vi probably have more…...
SvarDOS: an open-source DOS distribution
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (397+ words) Aside from a set of regular installation images for a variety of floppy sizes, there's also a dedicated "talking" build that uses the PROVOX screen reader and Braille "n Speak synthesizer at the COM1 port. It's rare for a smaller project…...
Haiku gets accelerated NVIDIA graphics driver
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (4+ words) Monthly Archive:: January 2026OSnews...
A look back: LANPAR, the first spreadsheet
2+ mon, 7+ hour ago (670+ words) In 1979, VisiCalc was released for the Apple II, and to this day, many consider it the very first spreadsheet program. Considering just how important spreadsheets have become since then " Excel rules the world " the first spreadsheet program is definitely an…...
Haiku gets new Go port
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (574+ words) There's a new Haiku monthly activity report, and this one's a true doozy. Let's start with the biggest news. The most notable development in November was the introduction of a port of the Go programming language, version 1.18. This is still…...
On recreating the lost SDK for a 42-year-old operating system: VisiCorp VisiOn
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (797+ words) I would think most of us here at OSNews are aware of VisiOn, the graphical multitasking operating system for the IBM PC which was one of the first operating systems with a graphical user interface, predating Windows, GEM, the Mac,…...
Setting up a combined 68k/PA-RISC HP-UX 9 cluster
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (604+ words) Jonathan Pallant got lucky and managed to score a massive haul of "90s UNIX workstations, one of which was an HP 9000 Model 340, a HP-UX workstation built around a Motorola 68030 processor at 16.7 MHz. It doesn"t come with a hard drive or…...
Dick Pick’s unique database operating system
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (523+ words) We usually at least recognize old computer hardware and software names. But Asianmoetry taught us a new one:Pick OS. This 1960s-era system was sort of a database and sort of an operating system for big iron used by the…...
The “AI” bubble is showing cracks, and Microsoft ruins Excel
5+ mon, 4+ week ago (1256+ words) It's not AI winter just yet, though there is a distinct chill in the air. Meta is'shaking up and downsizing'its artificial intelligence division. A new report out of MIT finds that'95 percent'of companies' generative AI programs have failed to earn…...