On "1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0 Day," tech lovers all over the world celebrated the moment when the clocks in the popular Unix computer operating system struck that exact stream of numbers. But on Feb. 13, ...

I booted UNIX V4 (first C rewrite) in a PDP‑11 emulator. It feels tactile—no backspace, staggered print, slower typing, and ...

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

Computer archaeology lovers among the audience are in for a rare treat in these challenging times. Remember that Unix v4 tape that was found and recovered at University of Utah around last week? You ...

Probably not too many people around the world celebrated November 1st, 2023, but on this momentous date FreeBSD celebrated its 30th birthday. As the first original fork of the first complete and open ...

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

WTF?! Nintendo positioned the Famicom to feel more like a computer than its Western counterpart – the NES – hence the name Family Computer. The additional storage and memory from the Disk System ...

Today, I test-drove an in-development operating system project that seems almost disturbingly tailored to me specifically: SerenityOS. I cannot possibly introduce SerenityOS more accurately than its ...

In 1991, Unix was an important but secondary x86 operating system. That year, on August 25, a mild-mannered Finnish graduate student named Linus Benedict Torvalds announced on the Usenet group comp.os ...

C and C++ are powerful tools, but not everyone has the patience (or enough semicolons) to use them all the time. For a lot of us, the preference is for something a little higher level than C. While ...