Most people learn the mkdir command on the first day they start using Unix. Along with ls, cd and pwd, it’s in the set of the most basic commands that everyone who ventures onto the command line on a ...

One way of organizing information is to put it into trees. When we organize information in a computer, we typically sort it into piles called nodes, with a name (pointer) for each pile. Some of the ...

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 ...

In March, SCO Group filed a megasuit against IBM, claiming the computer giant stirred SCO Unix code into the Linux melting pot. When Big Blue didn't buckle, SCO raised the stakes to $3 billion and ...