After a heroic effort, the oldest machine-readable copy of Unix version 2 is running again.… The recovered code runs on a PDP ...

A Princeton professor, finding a little time for himself in the summer academic lull, emailed an old friend a couple months ago. Brian Kernighan said hello, asked how their friend's US visit was going ...

When Apple announced the release of Mac OS X, many Mac users were stunned: here was a new operating system based on the venerable Unix, which, they feared, would call into question the Mac’s legendary ...

Unix workstations were powerful computers for science and 3D animation, popular in the '80s and '90s. Workstations had ...

Dennis Ritchie, a pioneer in computer programming who created the popular C programming language and helped create the Unix operating software, has died at age 70, according to his longtime employer.