The Living Computers museum in Seattle has got a DEC PDP-7 minicomputer running version 0 of Unix just in time for the operating system's 50th birthday. According to Living Computers, the feat is all ...
50-odd years later, the bits still had teeth. Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has pulled the contents from a more than half-century-old tape found at the University of… 50-odd years ...
Classic Unix tools (ls, cat, ed, cal, dc) and games show modern OS lineage ...
Computer archaeology lovers among the audience are in for a rare treat in these challenging times. Remember that Unix v4 tape ...
In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer at AT&T subsidiary Bell Laboratories, saw the month-long departure of his wife and young son as an opportunity to put his ideas for a new operating system ...