Model Context Shell lets AI agents compose MCP tool calls using something like Unix shell scripting. Instead of the agent orchestrating each tool call individually (loading all intermediate data into ...

Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has successfully retrieved the contents of the over-half-a-century old tape found at the University of Utah last month. There's a video of the ...

The University Research Computing Facility (URCF) is pleased to announce our Summer 2025 workshop series. The URCF provides support for computational research at Drexel. These workshops are open to ...

NOS-125 Linux and Unix Scripting This course covers the concepts and features of shell scripting. Topics include process control, shell scripting, advanced search techniques and power user utilities.

If you’ve just started reading and learning about Linux, you might have encountered the term “Unix”. The word itself looks similar to Linux, but what does it mean? Perhaps you’re wondering: what is ...

UNIX is a powerful multi-user operating system (OS) that defined how we do computing for more than 40 years. It provided a lot of features and abstractions that we take for granted today. This ...

Unix in Lisp is currently a usable Lisp (not POSIX!) shell for Unix. The distinctive feature of Unix in Lisp is that rather than creating a sub-language for Unix operations, Unix concepts are directly ...

Comment It's the end of an era. As The Reg covered last week, IBM has transferred development of AIX to India. Why should IBM pay for an expensive US-based team to maintain its own proprietary flavor ...

A new system, PaSH, has been developed to make computer programs run faster while also delivering accuracy in the Unix shell. The Unix shell is a 50-year-old programming environment that is still ...