Unix team created Plan 9
Published in PC Hardware
Tuesday, 30 March 2021 11:40

Unix team created Plan 9


An OS for a distributed world


Forward-thinking boffins at Bell Labs created another flavour of Unix which was designed to fit in a distributed world.

Museum gets Unix version 0 running on a DEC PDP-7
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In time for the OS's 50th birthday

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.

SCO case runs out of arguments
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Wednesday, 10 February 2016 11:37

SCO case runs out of arguments


Yeah the case is still going

After years the first attempt to take over Unix and Linux has ended after a US judge knocked out the two remaining arguments with which the SCO group hoped to attack IBM.

IBM Power is back from the dead
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Friday, 22 January 2016 10:51

IBM Power is back from the dead

Opening the platform up helped

It appears that IBM’s Power system, which had been largely written off, is back from the dead and Biggish Blue’s attempt to resurrect it might have paid off.

linux tux

Key to the development of data centres