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 ...

Programmers Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie are most often credited with the invention of Unix at Bell Labs in 1969 and the early 1970s. That’s entirely fair, but as with most important technologies, ...

Stepping back a decade or so, Bill Joy, who was a graduate student and programmer at the University of California at Berkeley in the ’70s, got his hands on a copy of Unix from Bell Labs, and he saw it ...

In a major upheaval in the open-source software market, Wind River Systems acquires Berkeley Software Design's version of Unix. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...