“It’s a Unix system, I know this” Hold onto your butts, gang… I just found out, via Pixar’s Michael B. Johnson, that the 3D file manager that Lex uses in Jurassic Park — “It’s a Unix system, I know ...

A Linux system, just like UNIX, makes no difference between a file and a directory, since a directory is just a file containing names of other files. Programs, services, texts, images, and so forth, ...

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.

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 ...

But Unix, the operating system that in one derivative or another powers nearly all smartphones sold worldwide, was born 50 years ago from the failure of an ambitious project that involved titans ...

For example, “c” indicates the process is using the file system as its current directory while “m” indicates that the process is using a file mapped with mmap.

That computer is a UNIX system. A Silicon Graphics IRIX system, to be exact. And that 3-D file system? That was real. It was called fsn, and you can still download an open source clone.

But even if the file system was somewhat true to life, the typical Hollywood interpretation of hacking presides. In the famous scene where Lex sits down at the computer with the line, “It’s a ...