[lotuseclat79]

40 years of Unix.

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 permanent change, anything that survives for more than one generation of processors deserves a nod.

Think then what the Unix operating system deserves because in August 2009, it celebrates its 40th anniversary. And it has been in use every year of those four decades and today is getting more attention than ever before.

-- Tom

P.S. I started using Unix (on a PDP/11) in the early 80s when it wasn't yet a teen!

[TerryNet]

FWIW I started using Unix about 1977. I was only a user, but remember the growing pains as our IT department kept stuffing more and more users onto each machine. I know they were DECs, probably the PDP/11. Eventually we were using Unix on much larger mainframes. In the late 90s was using Solaris on Sun work stations.