Abstract: This paper describes an implementation of the UNIX™ operating system for IBM System/370 computers. In this implementation an underlying Resident Supervisor, adapted from an existing IBM ...

If you're new to the UNIX operating system, especially if you're familiar with Windows, you'll find that the file access control mechanisms might not be exactly what you expect. File permissions and ...

This is an introduction to the Unix command line and some of the most important Unix tools a developer needs to know. In addition to the specific command line tools covered, we will also have a crash ...

Bill Thompson has been using Unix for a quarter-century - and doesn't plan to stop now. In the autumn of 1984, I completed the Diploma in Computer Science at Cambridge University and started looking ...

The “What’s the difference between UNIX and Linux?” question can be answered similar to the analogy section that many of us had to complete on the SAT test; UNIX is to DOS as Linux is to Windows. That ...

Unix in Lisp is currently a usable Lisp (not POSIX!) shell for Unix. The distinctive feature of Unix in Lisp is that rather than creating a sub-language for Unix operations, Unix concepts are directly ...

COMMENTARY--Whoever said the first casualty of war is truth would be surprised to find that apothegm quoted in a dispute between systems vendors. But it is an apt description of current events. The ...

GUIs are great—we wouldn’t want to live without them. But if you’re a Mac or Linux user and you want to get the most out of your operating system (and your keystrokes), you owe it to yourself to get ...