Created as a multi-tasking system for multiple users, the UNIX OS continues to influence the world five decades later. Today’s operating systems can be grouped into one of two families.

He wrote the first version of Unix in assembly language for a wimpy Digital Equipment Corp. PDP-7 minicomputer, spending one week each on the operating system, a shell, an editor and an assembler.

Maybe its pervasiveness has long obscured its origins. But Unix, the operating system that in one derivative or another powers nearly all smartphones sold worldwide, was born 50 years ago from the ...

While the response from the Macintosh community was muted and many of the Apple faithful greeted OS X with trepidation, hard-core Unix geeks were thrilled. Looking past the candy-colored GUI ...

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.

One of the big draws of OS X has always been the UNIX-like, BSD heritage of the operating system. Apple has always touted OS X as UNIX-based and played up the security, stability, and ...

would not want to go back to OS 9. We recognize the advantages that UNIX provides, in terms of stability etc. and would not want to give them up. We recognize the advantages provided by having an ...

He wrote the first version of Unix in assembly language for a wimpy Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) PDP-7 minicomputer, spending one week each on the operating system, a shell, an editor and an ...

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