Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has pulled the contents from a more than half-century-old tape found at ...

Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow ...

Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, Android, and other operating systems can trace their lineage back to the early commercial versions of ...

NEW PROVIDENCE— Dennis Ritchie was supposed to travel to Tokyo last month to receive the prestigious Japan Prize for his role in inventing the UNIX computer operating system. The earthquake and ...

The next time you buy a computer, you’ll likely get one tied to the ancient computing past — Unix. Yes, you heard that right, Unix. Here’s why. Unix was originally developed at AT&T’s Bell Labs ...

Unix died because of endless incompatibilities between versions. Linux succeeded on servers and everywhere else because it ...

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, ...

Just because you can name the remote end of a socket with an IP address and port number pair doesn’t mean the other side can or even wants to talk to you. Making yourself appear interesting (and ...

Warwick Ashford is chief reporter at Computer Weekly. He joined the CW team in June 2007 and is focused on IT security, business continuity, IT law and issues relating to regulation, compliance and ...

In the business world, Unix computers are typically used for server applications and high-end graphics workstations, such as those used in creating computer graphics. Even if you're not a system ...