While the Unix operating systems Solaris and HP-UX are still in active development, they’re not particularly popular anymore and are mostly relegated to some enterprise and data center environments ...

The Basilisk II emulator can be used to run old versions of Mac OS 8 and System 7 on a modern Mac. Here's how to get started using it. Before macOS and OS X, there was Mac OS 9, and before that were ...

Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer ...

Ever wonder how Unix got started? Here are year-by-year details of the operating system’s four-decade history. Ever wonder about how Unix got started, not to mention all the twists and turns it took ...

IBM last week made its first significant response to The SCO Group’s $1 billion lawsuit against it. SCO charges that IBM has stolen code from SCO’s Unix operating system and used it to strengthen Big ...