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 ...
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Four versions of Linux have become more capable operating systems than the lowest-ranked version of Unix, according to a new study. The study evaluates features and performance in dozens of areas, ...
The Unix operating system has been around for decades, and it and its lookalikes (mainly Linux) are a critical part of the computing world. Apple’s operating system, macOS, is Unix-based, as are ...
My company recently decided on AIX + the latest POWER9 hardware for a database server that's going to be yuuuuge. I didn't get to participate in that particular decision-making process, but I suspect ...
When Novell jumped into the SCO vs. Linux fight, most of us weren’t aware that the networking company was already deep in negotiations to buy SuSE Linux. While this might make its actions more ...
An operating system initially developed in the 1960s at Bell Labs. Its developers wrote it in C programming language along with assembly language. The creators of Unix originally intended the ...
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