My first USENIX conference was also the coming out event for Mach within the Unix community. It was summer of 1986 in Atlanta and the paper I presented was Mach: A New Kernel Foundation for Unix ...

Unix workstations were powerful computers for science and 3D animation, popular in the '80s and '90s. Workstations had advanced features like high-res monitors, faster processors, and RISC processors.

UNIX came first. UNIX came way first. It was developed back in 1969 by AT&T employees working at Bell Labs. Linux came about in either 1983 or 1984 or 1991, depending upon who’s holding the knife.

This November, the Unix community has another notable anniversary to celebrate: the 40th birthday of the first edition of Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie's Unix Programmers Manual, released in ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Sun Microsystems Inc. will unveil today its first Unix workstation priced less than $1,000 as it tries to regain ground lost to competitors.

The Unix operating system has been around for decades, and it and its lookalikes (mainly Linux) are a critical part of the computing world. Apple’s operating system, macOS, is Unix-based, as … ...

UnitedLinux member Caldera International says it's changing its name to the SCO Group--a move that pulls the company away from Linux into the Unix camp, according to analysts.

San Francisco sidewalks are covered with penguins and peace signs to celebrate IBM's new AIX, a Unix-based operating system that natively runs Linux applications.

In 1996, Microsoft introduced OpenNT, its first Unix subsystem for Windows NT. In 1998, it was rebranded as Interix and remained as a separate product until it became part of Microsoft Windows ...