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.

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 ...