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 ...

Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer ...

A non-profit industry association founded to provide direction for Unix System V. It was disbanded in 1993 after Novell purchased Unix from AT&T. See Unix history and Unix. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR ...