It took careful work to recover the UNIX V4 operating system from the 9-track magnetic tape. The software is foundational for ...

UNIX version 4 is quite special on account of being the first UNIX to be written in C instead of PDP-11 ASM, but it was also ...

Classic Unix tools (ls, cat, ed, cal, dc) and games show modern OS lineage ...

Through the looking glass: A half-century-old magnetic tape containing the only known copy of Unix v4 has been found and recovered by the University of Utah's School of Computing. The nine-track 3M ...

Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has pulled the contents from a more than half-century-old tape found at the University of… 50-odd years later, the bits still had teeth. Computer ...

One is the world's oldest Linux distro, the other isn't Linux at all. Each delivers superb stability - let's compare.

Barry S. Honig  The bulk materials industry is undergoing a significant technological transformation. Organizations across ...

Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has successfully retrieved the contents of the over-half-a-century old ...

More proof, if you will, that the traditional keyboard and multi-button mouse config is boring legacy tech to the hipsters in ...

A University of Utah research team’s rare find in a storage closet is being called a huge, historically significant discovery ...

Opinion: From COBOL and C to Linux and SQL, the unglamorous software that keeps the world running refuses to disappear ...