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How to make DOS look like Unix. how-to. Jul 19, 2005 6 mins. Computers and Peripherals. ... But DOS has grown quite a bit since the days when it was an operating system in its own right.

That’s impressive enough, but to add a UNIX-like operating system makes it special. ... We look forward to seeing more of this project, and hope maybe he’ll one day soon publish the source.

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.

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 ...

Who wouldn’t want to run a UNIX-like operating system on their NES or Famicom? ... The console has a mere 2 KB of RAM and 2 KB of VRAM, which made it look anemic even next to the C64.

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.