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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Opinion Ever since Linux got a graphical desktop, you could middle-click to paste – but if GNOME gets its way, that's going ...

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 ...

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

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

Phil Duff retired from Syspro in September 2024, leaving behind a legacy of 46 years of successful business growth.