i am currently taking an OS course and have run across this problem.Assume a Unix System V FS where each inode has 10 direct blocks , 1 indirect block and 1 double indirect block.Disk blocks are ...

In the late '80s, Sun Microsystems and AT&T began a joint effort to merge BSD with System V, AT&T's version of Unix that they had commercialized following the breakup of the Bell System.

It was quite a surprise for us. Novell Inc. says the 1995 agreement governing SCO’s purchase of Unix System V from Novell doesn’t convey copyrights. What’s your response?

SCO hopes to protect Unix System V customers by having another company manage the software Even as it continues to battle for Unix ownership in court, the SCO Group plans to auction off most all ...

The product of their collaboration, called Unix System V Release 4.0, became available two years later and combined features from System V Release 3, BSD, SunOS and Microsoft Corp.’s Xenix.

Traditionally, this role was fulfilled by SysVinit, the standard init system derived from the UNIX System V operating system. However, the evolving complexity and needs of modern computing systems ...

The SCO Group lawsuit against IBM for copyright infringement of the UNIX System V source code is not going away. In fact, it gets more interesting with each passing week.

Allen Brown, CEO of The Open Group, explains that his organization owns the Unix trademark and that the SCO Group holds the rights only to the OS source code.

Unix was created 40 years ago this summer. Computerworld looks back on what some have said is one of the most important pieces of software ever created.

Originally written in one month during the summer of '69, a little operating system called Unix would go on to be one of the most important pieces of software ever written. Four decades later, the ...