It took careful work to recover the UNIX V4 operating system from the 9-track magnetic tape. The software is foundational for ...

UNIX version 4 is quite special on account of being the first UNIX to be written in C instead of PDP-11 ASM, but it was also ...

Classic Unix tools (ls, cat, ed, cal, dc) and games show modern OS lineage ...

Computer archaeology lovers among the audience are in for a rare treat in these challenging times. Remember that Unix v4 tape ...

One is the world's oldest Linux distro, the other isn't Linux at all. Each delivers superb stability - let's compare.

A University of Utah research team's rare find in a storage closet is being called a huge, historically significant discovery ...

A University of Utah research team’s rare find in a storage closet is being called a huge, historically significant discovery ...

Opinion: From COBOL and C to Linux and SQL, the unglamorous software that keeps the world running refuses to disappear ...

Archivist Al Kossow of Bitsavers, who led the technical recovery, described the process as "easy" as such efforts go. The tape, he explained, had "a pretty ...

Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has pulled the contents from a more than half-century-old tape found at the University of… 50-odd years later, the bits still had teeth. Computer ...

The Department of Justice will not release all Epstein files on the court-ordered deadline. Several hundred thousand documents are expected to be released Friday, with more to follow next week. The ...

Even if the DOJ dump is incomplete and heavily redacted, at least Jmail makes them easy to access—thanks to a familiar ...