It took careful work to recover the UNIX V4 operating system from the 9-track magnetic tape. The software is foundational for ...

Classic Unix tools (ls, cat, ed, cal, dc) and games show modern OS lineage ...

Remember that Unix v4 tape that was found and recovered at University of Utah around last week? You can play it in a browser ...

On "1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0 Day," tech lovers all over the world celebrated the moment when the clocks in the popular Unix computer operating system struck that exact stream of numbers. But on Feb. 13, ...

"The UNIX Operating System" is a documentary that Bell Labs made in 1982 about UNIX's significance, impact and usability. Even 10 years after its first installation, it's still an introduction to the ...

Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at a PDP-11. Peter Hamer [CC BY-SA 2.0] Last week the computing world celebrated an important anniversary: the UNIX operating system turned 50 years old. What was ...

The use of the Linux operating system is becoming more common throughout the IT industry. Many corporate IT departments are using Linux to complement existing Unix systems using special-purpose Linux ...

C and C++ are powerful tools, but not everyone has the patience (or enough semicolons) to use them all the time. For a lot of us, the preference is for something a little higher level than C. While ...

One is the world's oldest Linux distro, the other isn't Linux at all. Each delivers superb stability - let's compare.

WTF?! Nintendo positioned the Famicom to feel more like a computer than its Western counterpart – the NES – hence the name Family Computer. The additional storage and memory from the Disk System ...

In a deal that brings together companies that Linux backers consider bogeymen, The SCO Group Inc. announced today that it has signed a licensing agreement with Microsoft Corp. over SCO’s Unix ...