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The Unix operating system is one of computing's most significant technologies, providing the framework that the familiar Linux and Mac OS X operating systems were developed on.
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 ...
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A Brief History of Operating Systems
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 my gut feel for this is that Unix is indeed the world's most successful operating system ever. 900 million concurrent users? I don't think even Windows has managed that.
Using the FTX (Fault Tolerant Unix) operating system, which supported virtual memory, System/88 was IBM's branding of Stratus Computer's Stratus/32 system in the late 1980s.
Linux, a clone of commercial UNIX operating systems, allows users to run off any number of software programs for front- and back-end operations. And unlike UNIX, Microsoft Windows, and the Macintosh ...
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.
More than four decades ago, Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson began sketching out the framework of a new computer operating system at Bell Labs. The pair called the system UNIX. Over the years ...
In the wee hours Sunday morning, Greenwich Mean Time, the Unix operating system will have counted its billionth second from the moment Unix computers recognize zero-time. By Farhad Manjoo.
And Monday brings news that IBM and Linux are going to get even cozier, as Big Blue announces the first Unix-based operating system that natively runs Linux applications.