Most people learn the mkdir command on the first day they start using Unix. Along with ls, cd and pwd, it's in the set of the most basic commands that everyone who ventures onto the command line ...

I am currently writing a version of File Tree Walk for my systems programming class for the UNIX operating system. I was wondering if there was a verion of ...

In UNIX systems, processes are represented as a tree structure, where each process has a parent and can have zero or more child processes, whereas in Windows NT systems, there is no such ...

Unix, most people would say, is an operating system written decades ago at AT&T’s Bell Labs, and its descendents. Today’s major versions of Unix branched off a tree with two trunks: one ...

On "1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0 Day," tech lovers all over the world celebrated the moment when the clocks in the popular Unix computer operating system struck that exact stream of numbers. But on Feb. 13 ...

Unix was developed in 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at AT&T, who scaled down the sophisticated, multiuser MULTICS operating system for Digital's PDP-7. The Unix name was coined as a ...

News; Berkeley Heights man receives Japan Prize for co-inventing UNIX computer operating system. Published: ; May. 19, 2011, 9:38 p.m.

Dr. Dennis Ritchie BERKELEY HEIGHTS — Forty years after they invented the UNIX computer operating system at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, Berkeley Heights resident Dr. Dennis Ritchie and Dr. Kenneth ...