NEW PROVIDENCE— Dennis Ritchie was supposed to travel to Tokyo last month to receive the prestigious Japan Prize for his role in inventing the UNIX computer operating system. The earthquake and ...

CHEYENNE -- Starting next summer, University of Wyoming students and researchers will have access to one of the world's fastest supercomputers. But first, UW's working to help them learn to speak the ...

NEW YORK --Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, said on Monday it will license the rights to a rival Unix computer operating system from SCO Group, sending SCO's shares soaring 40 percent.

It took careful work to recover the UNIX V4 operating system from the 9-track magnetic tape. The software is foundational for ...

Just because you can name the remote end of a socket with an IP address and port number pair doesn’t mean the other side can or even wants to talk to you. Making yourself appear interesting (and ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Dennis Ritchie and Kenneth Thompson, the world-renowned computer scientists who invented the UNIX operating system at Bell Labs in 1969, are the recipients of this year's Harold Pender ...

Any respectable Unix clock will tell you that Friday will mark 1,234,567,890 seconds past January 1, 1970. Why not celebrate? Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Novell, and not SCO Group, owns the copyrights covering the Unix computer-operating system, a federal judge ruled in a lawsuit over royalties from users of the Linux computer-operating system. The ...

SMB (Server Message Block) is a network protocol that is used to share access to files, printers and serial ports between a Linux or Unix computer and a Windows computer. NFS (Network File System) is ...