Researchers found the only known surviving copy of Unix Version 4 on magnetic tape, a key milestone in the evolution of modern operating systems.

Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has successfully retrieved the contents of the over-half-a-century old tape found at the University of Utah last month.… UNIX V4, the first ever ...

This digital fossil took me back in time when computers played Tic-Tac-Toe on paper.

Unix is among the oldest and most reliable operating systems. Developed in the late 1960s and early '70s at AT&T's Bell Laboratories, Unix was never seen as a cash cow for Ma Bell. In fact, AT&T ...

I’ve heard that those who can’t remember history are condemned to repeat it but for Unix users, repeating history is not only advantageous, it’s something of a skill. When working on the command line, ...

Although many people claim that Linux is well on its way to replacing Unix, the reality is that Linux is Unix: a particular stream within a much wider community whose traditions and ideas both ...

In May, United Parcel Service Inc. moved a sendmail messaging application from a Unix/RISC-based system to Linux on Intel. The result was superior performance at a lower cost. Much lower, said Nick ...