It took careful work to recover the UNIX V4 operating system from the 9-track magnetic tape. The software is foundational for ...

I booted UNIX V4 (first C rewrite) in a PDP‑11 emulator. It feels tactile—no backspace, staggered print, slower typing, and ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

As far as I know, the Mac mini is the first Unix computer from a major manufacturer (if Apple can be called that) to be this small and cheap. This is a full multi-user operating system and reasonably ...

CHEYENNE -- Starting next summer, University of Wyoming students and researchers will have access to one of the world's fastest supercomputers. But first, UW's working to help them learn to speak the ...

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 ...

Any respectable Unix clock will tell you that Friday will mark 1,234,567,890 seconds past January 1, 1970. Why not celebrate? Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

who uses the monicker "Hack4Life," said Wednesday that he stole advisories detailing flaws in a common set of Unix code, the Kerberos authentication system and some implementations of encryption for ...