A fascinating little point made in a much longer piece about the smartphone wars. One that makes me wonder whether Unix can now be considered to be the most successful operating system of all time.

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 ...

Hewlett-Packard developers have moved some key features from Compaq Computer's version of Unix to its own HP-UX, an important part of the company's plan to eventually merge the two product lines ...

But Unix, the operating system that in one derivative or another powers nearly all smartphones sold worldwide, was born 50 years ago from the failure of an ambitious project that involved titans ...

News; Berkeley Heights man receives Japan Prize for co-inventing UNIX computer operating system. Published: ; May. 19, 2011, 9:38 p.m.

Hewlett-Packard developers move some features from Compaq's version of Unix to its own HP-UX, an important part of the company's plan to eventually merge the two product lines.