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.

Similarly, writing a UNIX-like operating system from scratch is something that’s been done more than once, but which definitely puts the author in an exclusive breed. Creating a CPU and ...

Rather than technical issues, most concerns raised in the discussion on Ubuntu Discourse are about licensing. As a product of ...

Unix workstations were powerful computers for science and 3D animation, popular in the '80s and '90s. Workstations had advanced features like high-res monitors, faster processors, and RISC processors.

Unix was developed as a command line interface in the early 1970s with a very rich command vocabulary. DOS followed more than a decade later for the IBM PC, and DOS commands migrated to Windows.

After a heroic effort, the oldest machine-readable copy of Unix version 2 is running again.… The recovered code runs on a PDP-11 simulator and contains a version of Unix that's later than V1 ...

The dispatch system relied on human operators who took calls from customers and then recorded their pickup location in an ...

These are the formal rules for forming basic UNIX regular expressions. For some simple examples, skip to Simple Examples. The rules come from the Solaris 7 regexp(5) manual page. The I2A2 reflector ...

Use this simple command to add your public key to Unix, Linux, and Mac SSH hosts. You can also add your public keys to remote hosts manually. Public keys are in text format and this can be done with ...

The Ubuntu developers want to replace the classic Unix command line programs of the GNU project with new tools written in Rust.

You can execute UNIX commands from your SAS session either asynchronously or synchronously. When you run a command as an asynchronous task, the command executes independently of all other tasks that ...

Files, folders, and applications work the same way in the terminal as they do on normal computer, but instead of using the mouse to click, find, and open them, commands are typed into the command line ...