The next time you buy a computer, you'll likely get one tied to the ancient computing past --- Unix. Yes, you heard that right, Unix. Here's why.

Amanda Brown/For the Star-LedgerDennis Ritchie (left) is awarded the prestigious Japan Prize from Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, chairman of the Japan Prize Foundation, for his work on the UNIX computer ...

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 ...

US computer scientist Dennis Ritchie - one of the co-inventors of the Unix operating system and the C programming language - has died at 70 after a long illness.

You probably won’t find Linux computers on the shelves of your local stores, because most Linux computer vendors are independent shops, don’t have big advertising budgets, and they don’t get media ...