Unix was developed in 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at AT&T, who scaled down the sophisticated, multiuser MULTICS operating system for Digital's PDP-7. The Unix name was coined as a ...

COMMENTARY--There have been two dominant programming domains in the tech world, Unix and Windows. Both sides have their own specialists, standard tools and programming conventions. The two camps also ...

I’ve heard that those who can’t remember history are condemned to repeat it but for Unix users, repeating history is not only advantageous, it’s something of a skill. When working on the command line, ...