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 ...

A University of Utah research team's rare find in a storage closet is being called a huge, historically significant discovery ...

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 ...

UNIX version 4 is quite special on account of being the first UNIX to be written in C instead of PDP-11 ASM, but it was also ...

Remember when HP made its own CPUs and Unix? We wonder if it does The final version of HPE's own flavor of Unix, HP-UX 11i v3 ...

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

Early Sunday morning in Greenwich, England, the clock that keeps Universal Time will strike 01:46:40 -- the 40th second of the 46th minute in the second hour of Sept. 9, 2001. That instant will be an ...

Unix time, also known as 'epoch time,' is the number of seconds that have passed since Jan 1, 1970. As Unix turns 50, let's take a look at what worries kernel developers. 2020 is a significant year ...

Linus Torvalds once said, in reference to the development of Linux, that he “had hoisted [himself] up on the shoulders of giants.” Among those giants, Dennis Ritchie (aka dmr) was likely the tallest.