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 ...

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 ...

If you're new to the UNIX operating system, especially if you're familiar with Windows, you'll find that the file access control mechanisms might not be exactly what you expect. File permissions and ...

I booted UNIX V4 (first C rewrite) in a PDP‑11 emulator. It feels tactile—no backspace, staggered print, slower typing, and it forced me to slow down. Classic Unix tools (ls, cat, ed, cal, dc) and ...

SCO Group, inheritor of the intellectual property for the Unix operating system, sues IBM for more than $1 billion. Analysts say the move is a desperate one. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

Microsoft Thursday is expected to make available for free its Services for Unix software, which helps integrate Unix and Windows and supports migrations of Unix applications to the Microsoft platform.

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, ...

SAN DIEGO--And the Unix system will lay down with the Windows system, and lo, there shall be peace among the vendors. IT folks are hoping for major interoperability improvements between leading server ...

Novell is taking The SCO Group to task over SCO’s legal claims over Unix and against Linux software. Novell on Wednesday said it never transferred the copyrights and patents of Unix System V when it ...

SCO Group and Novell began publicly airing documents related to their dispute over Unix copyrights--important factors in SCO's claim to intellectual property rights for the Linux operating system. SCO ...