After a heroic effort, the oldest machine-readable copy of Unix version 2 is running again.… The recovered code runs on a PDP ...

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

Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer ...

Efforts to stop Linux from splitting into incompatible versions--the plight that hobbled Unix--move forward as key companies get behind a standardization plan. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

Takeaway: Unix’s rock-solid reliability means that its relevant now more than ever – and Linux puts Unix’s power within reach. Unix has been around for a very long time. We remember the rampant ...

The SCO Group Inc. last week detailed a new product road map and a more aggressive marketing plan for its Unix software — a move that comes less than a year after the company’s last attempt to ...

Microsoft will no longer offer Linux or Unix versions of its enterprise search products after a wave of releases set to ship in the first half of this year, the company announced in an official blog ...

Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer ...