On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's Friday column that tells your stories of tech support jobs performed ...

Louisiana is using a mainframe that's over 50 years old to run the OMV. What is COBOL and why does it matter as the REAL ID deadline looms?

AMD is doing great, at least as far as Amazon CPU sales are concerned -- but Intel still has a few horses in this race.

It's been six months (yes, really) since we were first introduced to the Zen 5 CPU architecture with the Ryzen 9000 series ...