It’s difficult to convey in an era when a UNIX-like operating system sits in your pocket, how there was once a time when the mere word was enough to convey an aura of immense computing power. If you ...

Takeaway: Unix’s rock-solid reliability means that its relevant now more than ever – and Linux puts Unix’s power within reach. Unix has been around for a very long time. We remember the rampant ...

WIth the 50th birthday of the UNIX operating system being in the news of late, there has been a bit of a spotlight shone upon its earliest origins. At the Living Computers museum in Seattle though ...

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Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer ...

Another advantage of Unix — the second “wow,” as Salus puts it — was that it didn’t have to be run on a million-dollar mainframe. It was written for the tiny and primitive DEC PDP-7 minicomputer ...

“ [We hope that] users of Unix will find that the most important characteristics of the system are its simplicity, elegance, and ease of use.” Apparently they did. Unix would go on to become a ...

Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer ...