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 ...

Archivist Al Kossow of Bitsavers, who led the technical recovery, described the process as "easy" as such efforts go. The tape, he explained, had "a pretty ...

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

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

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 ...

Add or Remove Programs entry for Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA) utilities. UNIX Interoperability components in Windows Server 2003 R2 allow you to reduce costs by integrating UNIX and ...

Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, Android, and other operating systems can trace their lineage back to the early commercial versions of Unix. One of the missing links in that chain, UNIX Fourth Edition, is now ...

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

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

Akira Urushibata recently wrote to libreplanet-discuss, which hadn't been active for 2 months ( he was the last person to write to it back in November ). His latest message is a bit like an article ...