The moment when an antique operating system that has not run in decades boots and presents a command prompt is thrilling for Warren Toomey. He compares it to restoring an old Model-T. "An old car ...

Incidentally, I believe /etc is just as deserving of being read-only as /bin and /lib (and on my systems, it is). In particular, it's something that ought to change only via manual administrative ...

Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has successfully retrieved the contents of the over-half-a-century old tape found at the University of Utah last month.… UNIX V4, the first ever ...

The Art of Unix Programming (TAoUP), by Eric S. Raymond, is not a tutorial or how-to book. Instead, it is a book about the history and philosophy of Unix. But no other book has had a greater influence ...

OS X to get them on the Web and to dutifully check their e-mail. Others, however, may be a little bit more interested in what this whole "UNIX thing" is all about. One way to understand the present is ...

In May, United Parcel Service Inc. moved a sendmail messaging application from a Unix/RISC-based system to Linux on Intel. The result was superior performance at a lower cost. Much lower, said Nick ...