Unix: An Operating System, Not A Timekeeper 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 ...

Maybe its pervasiveness has long obscured its origins. But Unix, the operating system that in one derivative or another powers nearly all smartphones sold worldwide, was born 50 years ago from the ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt ... way (it's also something you might use if you're familiar with UNIX operating systems). Learning to use the Terminal is kind of like speaking a ...

Producing the document was no easy task, because at that point the Unix operating system grew by the week; budding aficionados added new commands and features to the system on a regular basis.

Their goal was to write a multi-tasking, multi-user operating system (OS) and in August 1969, a programmer at AT&T Bell Laboratories started work on the first ever version of Unix. This programmer ...