BBC NEWS | Technology | 40 years of UnixPage last updated at 10:04 GMT, Thursday, 20 August 2009 11:04 UK 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
