A fascinating little point made in a much longer piece about the smartphone wars. One that makes me wonder whether Unix can now be considered to be the most successful operating system of all time ...

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 ...

Indeed, OS X is a fully featured Unix operating system (certified as Unix by the Open Standard Groups). Not even modern versions of Linux, such as Mint or Ubuntu, are certified Unix operating ...

Linux isn't a certified Unix system, and some say it definitely isn't Unix. The key question for a business is if a commercial Unix flavor is enough like Linux that you can make an easy transition ...

The Unix revolution—thank you, Uncle Sam? Why did the Unix operating system expand so quickly in the 1970s and 1980s?

If you're new to the UNIX operating system, especially if you're familiar with Windows, you'll find that the file access control mechanisms might not be exactly what you expect.

The Unix command “uname -s” will tell you the operating system your machine is currently running, and under Mac OS X it returns “Darwin,” Apple’s name for the non-GUI, nongraphical core ...

Wheelwright, Steven C. "Sun Microsystems and the UNIX Operating System: Creation of a Standard?, Teaching Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 690-042, December 1989.

Two instances in particular stand out: the programming language called C, which from the early 1970s has been perhaps the most popular programming language; and the Unix operating system, first ...