Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at a PDP-11. Peter Hamer [CC BY-SA 2.0] Last week the computing world celebrated an important anniversary: the UNIX operating system turned 50 years old. What was ...

It never became the next Unix, but after using it, I started seeing its fingerprints in places I already use.

We caught up with the pioneers who brought us the Unix operating system and asked them to share some memories of the early days of Unix development. Unix co-developer Ken Thompson worked at Bell Labs ...

If you're thinking about programming or just learning to code, you might notice that developers tend to favor Linux. Why is that? Here are the reasons you should care about Linux's hold over ...

The Bell Labs PR folks eventually wanted it changed to Unix, probably to avoid the pun. “I remember Ken coming in for lunch one day (he tended to program into the wee hours) with a thousand-line ...