Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at a PDP-11. Peter Hamer [CC BY-SA 2.0] Last week the computing world celebrated an important anniversary: the UNIX operating system turned 50 years old. What was ...

Unix time, also known as Epoch time, is a system that helps represent a point in time as a single number. Unix time was developed as part of the Unix operating system in the 1970s, and it has become a ...

Unix operating system is a multitasking, multiuser operating system developed in the late 1960s. AT&T Bell Labs is the developer of the Unix Operating System. Originally designed for exclusive use by ...

FOSDEM 2024 There are vital lessons to be learned from the history of Unix, but they're being forgotten. This is leading to truly vast amounts of wasted effort. FOSDEM is a conference all about free ...

Commercial enterprise UNIX today reminds me of vintage clothes and furniture. Just when you think certain things have become passé in favor of newer more modern things, they are somehow revived and ...

The computer world is notorious for its obsession with what is new - largely thanks to the relentless engine of Moore's Law that endlessly presents programmers with more powerful machines. Given such ...

What defines an operating system isn’t a geeky label or a collection of ramblings from the mouths of its community members. Nor is it some empty and pointless certification offered up by an obscure ...