Josey: We were given the UNIX trademark from Novell back in, I think it was 1993, and at that point, the major vendors came together to agree on a common specification. At the time, its code name was ...

Éric Lévénez, who studies the history of computers, presented `` UNIX History '', which shows the history of `` UNIX '' over 50 years in chronological order, which is the first OS written in a ...

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, ...

As of 7p Eastern (or midnight GMT), the Unix time clock reached 15000 days, a significant milestone in computing history. The last time we turned a 5k mark (day 10000) was May 19th, 1997, nearly 14 ...

Unix was developed in 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at AT&T, who scaled down the sophisticated, multiuser MULTICS operating system for Digital's PDP-7. The Unix name was coined as a ...

This November, the Unix community has another notable anniversary to celebrate: the 40th birthday of the first edition of Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie’s Unix Programmers Manual, released in ...

The Unix history command is a critically important tool for reviewing what you and others did on the systems you manage – both for troubleshooting and to make managing systems easier (e.g., What was ...

I have been called “nostalgic beyond my years” by some, and I suppose that is accurate. I was born in 1976 and have always had a voracious appetite for early minicomputer and mainframe history. I ...