Bill Gates said during a recent interview with CNN that one regret he has when looking back on his life and career, is in making the interrupt function on Windows PCs trigger at Ctrl, Alt, Delete.

Back in the nineties, as I was meddling with MS DOS run x86 machines, I was fascinated by Terminate-Stay-Resident (TSR) programs. These programs would keep running in the background even while you run ...

This article discusses Hardware Interrupts in Windows and how to show the boot menu in Windows. A video at the MSDN blog shows Windows booting real fast – under seven seconds. The computer used was an ...