In the spring and summer of 1991, Torvalds hacked on a simple Unix‑like kernel for his 386 PC. He wanted to learn about operating systems, dial into the local Usenet server, and build a more capable ...

Multics is a pioneering operating system, commonly considered the "progenitor" of the UNIX operating system. This directory tree contains most of the source code for Multics Release 12.7. MR12.7 is ...

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FreeBSD is one of the most stable OSes on the planet. FreeBSD is also more challenging than Linux. You can download and install FreeBSD for free. I'm not gonna lie: I don't give FreeBSD (or any of the ...

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Storage room 3495 at his University of Utah computing lab had gotten so packed full of cardboard boxes, Aleks Maricq jokes it had become hard to even see the floor. It rivaled a game of Jenga — or ...

When we think of important historical discoveries, many of us probably imagine big archaeological finds, such as the LiDAR-assisted discovery of two mountain cities in eastern Uzbekistan in 2024. But ...

It took careful work to recover the UNIX V4 operating system from the 9-track magnetic tape. The software is foundational for most devices used today, including iPhones. Storage room 3495 at his ...

"The UNIX Operating System" is a documentary that Bell Labs made in 1982 about UNIX's significance, impact and usability. Even 10 years after its first installation, it's still an introduction to the ...

Professor Robert Ritchie of the University of Utah's Callert School of Computing has managed to recover the tape drive data of the 1970s edition of UNIX V4, the first ever version of the UNIX ...