Éric Lévénez, who studies the history of computers, presented `` UNIX History '', which shows the history of `` UNIX '' over 50 years in chronological order, which is the first OS written in a ...

Unix was developed in 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at AT&T, who scaled down the sophisticated, multiuser MULTICS operating system for Digital's PDP-7. The Unix name was coined as a ...

It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C A tape-based piece of unique Unix history may have been lying ...

Josey: We were given the UNIX trademark from Novell back in, I think it was 1993, and at that point, the major vendors came together to agree on a common specification. At the time, its code name was ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Linus Torvalds, the creator and maintainer of the Linux Kernel, announced on a mailing list that he was taking time off to address behavioral issues that have caused negativity in the Linux community.

I’ve heard that those who can’t remember history are condemned to repeat it but for Unix users, repeating history is not only advantageous, it’s something of a skill. When working on the command line, ...