NEW PROVIDENCE— Dennis Ritchie was supposed to travel to Tokyo last month to receive the prestigious Japan Prize for his role in inventing the UNIX computer operating system. The earthquake and ...

More than four decades ago, Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson began sketching out the framework of a new computer operating system at Bell Labs. The pair called the system UNIX. Over the years ...

Finally, management gave in and purchased a computer for the Unix team to play with. Eventually, word leaked out about this operating system, and businesses and institutions with PDP-11s began ...

It was during that time and after as the growing team got the operating system running on a DEC computer known as a PDP-7 that Unix came into being. By the early 1970s, five people were working on ...

The Unix operating system has been around for decades ... leading to a boom in computer science and general purpose computing in the 1970s and 80s. (Not disrespect for the IBM 360; we just ...

That instant will be an anniversary for the Unix operating system: It marks one billion ... the date buffer filling with digits, causing the computer to go wacky. "Unix tells time differently ...

Producing the document was no easy task, because at that point the Unix operating system grew by the week ... book A Quarter Century of Unix. "Computer research at BTL was in the doldrums." ...

SCO Group, inheritor of the intellectual property for the Unix operating system, sues IBM for more ... quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers ...

Targeting transaction processing, System ... image to the operator. Using the FTX (Fault Tolerant Unix) operating system, which supported virtual memory, System/88 was IBM's branding of Stratus ...