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Articles

Can SGI’s enthusiast community bring IRIX back to life?

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The early days of Linux

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How Novell Netware lost the battle against Windows NT (2013)

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Novell NetWare: The King Returns from the Dead (2001)

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CS631 – Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment

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The Forgotten Operating System That Keeps the NYC Subway System Alive (2019)

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Pub400.com – Your public IBM I 7.5 server

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Transcending Posix: The End of an Era?

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The UNIX Programming Environment (1984)

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From novice to master, and back again (2013)

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Unix didn't use to support '#!', a brief history

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Porting Doom to a/UX

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Why Darwin failed (2006)

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The cult of Amiga and SGI, or why workstations matter

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The wild world of non-C operating systems

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When Apple Built a Mac OS Running on Top of Solaris and HP-UX

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Why Does Windows Use Backslash as Path Separator? (2019)

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Brian Kernighan on the Origins of Unix

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The story behind OS X’s Unix compliant certification

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Using BeOS on a Power Mac (2001)

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Why did OpenDoc fail, and then fail 3 more times?

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The Challenges of Integrating the Unix and Mac OS Environments (2000)

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CS631: Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment

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Unix Wars (2000)

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A Requiem for a Dying Operating System (1994)

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Why I’m Willing to Pay a Premium for Security, Privacy, and Peace of Mind

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The End of OS X

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BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X

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Installing A/UX on the Quadra 610 (2018)

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Unix: A History and a Memoir, by Brian Kernighan

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The Earliest Unix Code: An Anniversary Source Code Release

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Mach kernel

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FreeDOS's Linux Roots

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The NYC subway system runs on OS/2

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Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator?

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Back in the Day: Unix, Minix and Linux

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Getting an IBM AS/400 Midrange Computer on the Internet

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Why did Apple's Copland fail when so many 90s OS succeed, dominate world today

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Linus Torvalds announces Linux (1991)

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Apple open-sourced the kernel of iOS and macOS for ARM processors

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Linux at 20, some personal memories (2011)

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An OS 9 odyssey: Why some Mac users won’t abandon 16-year-old software

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The Sad History of the Microsoft Posix Subsystem (2010)

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Lessons Learned from 30 Years of MINIX

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On Hurd, Linux and the Misadventures of Cross-Compiling a GNU Hurd Toolchain

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Examining the Legendary Hurd Kernel (2008)

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BSD Unix: Power to the people, from the code (2000)

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Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin Split [pdf]

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Why people were enthused about GCC early on in its life

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From Novice to Master, and Back Again

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The myth of the fall

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Free Unix (1983)

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We Need More Operating Systems

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Why is Linux more popular than BSD?

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Gassée: Thank God Apple chose NeXT over my BeOS

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OS X – Safe, yet horribly insecure

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Writing clean, testable, high quality code in Python

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Three locks for your SSH door

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GNU HURD: Altered visions and lost promise

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Stop Piping Cats

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GNU Screen - A Hacker's Ideal Terminal

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A/UX

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Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner

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The Berkeley Software Distribution

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A few facts about POSIX

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Posix.1-2024 is published

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Free software hijacked Philip Hazel's life

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Andrew S. Tanenbaum Receives ACM Software System Award

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On Building Systems That Will Fail (1991)

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1989 Networking: NetWare 386

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A brief history of Dell Unix (2008)

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