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 ...

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.

While the Unix operating systems Solaris and HP-UX are still in active development, they’re not particularly popular anymore and are mostly relegated to some enterprise and data center enviro… ...

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 ...

The Unix operating system was born during the most creative point in any technology story: failure. One day in 1969, ...