One way or another, you’re interacting with operating systems. Your smartphone uses one, and your tablet and laptop do as well. However, little is said about how the ways we interact with our ...

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 ...

"With Multics they tried to have a much more versatile and flexible operating system, and it failed miserably," said Dr Peter Salus, author of the definitive history of Unix's early years. Time well ...

The sad history of the Unix computer operating system, which Steve Weber also tells, shows that fragmentation can dissipate the benefits of even the best open source platform.

I know this.”, the Unix operating system (trademarked as UNIX) originated at Bell Labs where it initially was only intended for internal use to make writing and running code for systems like the ...

The standard version of Unix history notes that Ken Thompson ran his Space Travel game program on Multics and wanted to keep it around. The new project, however, was about a lot more than that.

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.

At the time, Novell was the market leader in server operating systems by a wide margin through its NetWare and Unix product families. Novell pioneered the LAN (local area network) throughout the ...

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 ...