Unix's growth in the '80s was driven by its portability and its populararity in academia and on workstations. Business acceptance of Unix grew but faced challenges from Windows NT and conflicting ...

Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at a PDP-11. Peter Hamer [CC BY-SA 2.0] Last week the computing world celebrated an important anniversary: the UNIX operating system turned 50 years old.

Unix was developed as a command line interface in the early 1970s with a very rich command vocabulary. DOS followed more than a decade later for the IBM PC, and DOS commands migrated to Windows.

Mission Unix’s history is long—much longer than NT’s.Unix’s development started in 1969 and its primary goal was to be a ...

Similarly, writing a UNIX-like operating system from scratch is something that’s been done more than once, but which definitely puts the author in an exclusive breed. Creating a CPU and ...

The Reg FOSS desk is very fond of Haiku, as he was of BeOS itself – as his BeOS 5 review from 2000 shows. Almost exactly ...

This may sound like a plot from a sci-fi disaster film, but the “Year 2038” bug is a very real threat that could disrupt our ...

These are the formal rules for forming basic UNIX regular expressions. For some simple examples, skip to Simple Examples. The rules come from the Solaris 7 regexp(5) manual page. The I2A2 reflector ...

The glitch could cause problems for digital devices worldwide, and it is caused by how computer systems store time and dates.

Founder, Imran Kagalwala, shares how UNIX India redefines mobile accessories with research-driven innovation, sustainability, ...

You can execute UNIX commands from your SAS session either asynchronously or synchronously. When you run a command as an asynchronous task, the command executes independently of all other tasks that ...

Files, folders, and applications work the same way in the terminal as they do on normal computer, but instead of using the mouse to click, find, and open them, commands are typed into the command line ...