Will Unix be enough to grow a new crop of Apple customers? That's the question Apple Computer will begin to address Monday at its weeklong Worldwide Developer Conference in San Jose, Calif. By ...

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, ...

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 ...

We really like Mac OS X. Really. We now use it as our default OS and, overall, would not want to go back to OS 9. We recognize the advantages that UNIX provides, in terms of stability etc. and would ...

Making a CPU or indeed a whole computer system from scratch using discrete logic chips is by no means an unusual project, but it’s still one that requires quite a lot of technical ability and ...

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We can all admit that Mac OS X has the best GUI hands down. Anybody who argues that is a blithering idiot and should be shot on sight. Anyway, I'm now going to talk about Mac OS X for what it is - a ...

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