In other words, AT&T's Unix policies helped Unix become the operating system that we've all come to know, and, if not love, understand as empowered by a philosophy that also informs the "open ...

Unix, which was developed with no encouragement from management, was first viewed at AT&T as something between a curiosity and a legal headache. Then, in the late 1970s, AT&T realized it had ...

SALT LAKE CITY—Last August, the nail was poised over SCO's coffin when Judge Dale Kimball ruled that Novell never relinquished the copyrights to UNIX, but nobody really knew when it would be ...

In 1990, AT&T spun off USO into UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. (USL). In 1993, Novell acquired the System V source code from USL and sold it to The Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) a year later.

In the video, he shows off two AT&T boxes. The first is a UNIX PC , containing a 68010 clocked at a blistering 10 MHz. Next up is the UNIX PC’s bigger brother, the 3B2 400 .

In a longish post over at Dadhacker, Landon Dyer tells us the story, in florid language, of the moment that the Atari ST very nearly ran Unix. Not Linux, mind you, but real, AT&T Unix. The license ...

By the mid-1970s there were two main sects: AT&T UNIX, which we may liken unto the Roman Catholic Church, and BSD UNIX, which we may approximate to the Orthodox Churches. And then lo, there were ...

When Novell jumped into the SCO vs. Linux fight, most of us weren't aware that the networking company was already deep in negotiations to buy SuSE Linux. While this might make its actions more ...

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American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and computer software networking specialist Novell Inc. said Monday they have signed a letter of intent for Novell to acquire AT&T`s UNIX System Laboratories ...