The computer world is notorious for its obsession with what is new - largely thanks to the relentless engine of Moore's Law that endlessly presents programmers with more powerful machines. Given such ...

With reference to the query from your correspondent Enid Woods (September 17, who queried the answer to a Telegraph crossword clue) I am sending a small quotation from the on-line encyclopedia ...

Long before Windows, and even before MS-DOS, Microsoft sold a Unix-based operating system it called Xenix in 1980. It was the first OS made by the company, but it eventually sold it off in 1987. On ...

The American computer scientist Dennis Ritchie, who has died aged 70 after suffering from cancer and heart disease, was one of the co-inventors of the Unix operating system and the C programming ...

A federal appeals court has reversed a judge's decision that granted the copyright of the Unix computer operating system to Novell. A three-judge panel of the 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. The fate of ownership of the Unix computer operating system is heading to trial after a federal ...

NEW YORK: Microsoft Corp has said that it will license the rights to the Unix computer operating system from SCO Group, in a deal that could apply pressure on other firms to follow suit and enter ...