"The UNIX Operating System" is a documentary that Bell Labs made in 1982 about UNIX's significance, impact and usability. Even 10 years after its first installation, it's still an introduction to ...

A U.S. federal court decision on Friday over software widely used on corporate servers ruled that Novell, and not SCO Group, was the rightful owner of copyrights covering the Unix operating system.

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 ...

When you execute one or more UNIX commands synchronously, then you must wait for those commands to finish executing before you can continue working in your SAS session. You can use the CALL SYSTEM ...

But my gut feel for this is that Unix is indeed the world's most successful operating system ever. 900 million concurrent users? I don't think even Windows has managed that.

The Unix revolution—thank you, Uncle Sam? Why did the Unix operating system expand so quickly in the 1970s and 1980s?

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 ...

With the introduction of PC-based operating systems in the mid-1980s, Unix developers needed a way to port Unix utilities and emulated shells into DOS, and later, Microsoft Windows environments ...

NeXt built a operating system based on two existing UNIX projects: Mach, from Carnegie Melon University, and BSD, created at the University of California at Berkeley.

While the Unix operating systems Solaris and HP-UX are still in active development, they’re not particularly popular anymore and are mostly relegated to some enterprise and data center ...