UNIX System III (or System 3) is a discontinued version of the Unix operating system released by AT&T's Unix Support Group (USG). AT&T announced System...
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Unix System V (pronounced: "System Five") is one of the first commercial versions of the Unix operating system. It was originally developed by AT&T and...
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Unix (/ˈjuːnɪks/ , YOO-niks; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T...
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Each version of the UNIX Time-Sharing System evolved from the version before, with version one evolving from the prototypal Unix. Not all variants and...
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Unix code base prior to Unix System III, particularly the Research Unix releases prior to and including Version 7 (the base for UNIX/32V as well as later...
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Zilog Z8000 (redirect from Zilog Enhanced UNIX System)
950. These systems ran Unix System III. 1983: Exxon Office Systems 500 series and 8400 series. 1984: the Wordplex 8000 Integrated Office System featured...
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below) that almost all Unix-based and Unix-like operating systems descend.) Unix System III Unix System IV Unix System V Unix System V Releases 2.0, 3.0...
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UNIX/32V is an early version of the Unix operating system from Bell Laboratories, released in June 1979. 32V was a direct port of the Seventh Edition...
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command in 1981 with UNIX System III and at the same time made available under the alternate name [. The test command in Unix evaluates the expression...
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the group's vision for Unix: What we wanted to preserve was not just a good environment in which to do programming, but a system around which a fellowship...
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Xenix (redirect from SCO XENIX System V)
Xenix is a discontinued Unix operating system for various microcomputer platforms, licensed by Microsoft from AT&T Corporation. The first version was...
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PC-UX (category Unix variants)
PC-UX was a discontinued NEC port of UNIX System III for their APC III and PC-9801 personal computer. PC-UX possessed extensive graphics capabilities...
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The Programmer's Workbench (PWB/UNIX) was an early, now discontinued, version of the Unix operating system that had been created in the Bell Labs Computer...
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Version 6 Unix variant enhanced for office automation running on the PDP-11. IS/3 and IS/5 were enhanced versions of Unix System III and System V for PDP-11...
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IBM AIX (redirect from Advanced IBM UNIX)
(pronounced /ˌeɪ.aɪ.ˈɛks/ ay-eye-EKS) is a series of proprietary Unix operating systems developed and sold by IBM since 1986. The name stands for "Advanced...
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HP-UX (redirect from Hewlett Packard UniX)
Servers, based on Intel's Itanium architecture. It is based on Unix System V (initially System III) and first released in 1984. Earlier versions of HP-UX supported...
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Daemon (computing) (redirect from Unix daemon)
exclusively in the context of Unix-based systems. In other contexts, different terms are used for the same concept. Systems often start daemons at boot...
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also known as ICL System 4 Not-released Unix system between UNIX System III and UNIX System V STS-4 (Space Transportation System-4), the Space Shuttle...
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List of POSIX commands (redirect from List of Unix utilities)
many shells on modern Unix, Unix-like and other operating systems. This list does not cover commands for all versions of Unix and Unix-like shells nor other...
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Init (redirect from System V init daemon)
1. In Unix systems such as System III and System V, the design of init has diverged from the functionality provided by the init in Research Unix and its...
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The Unix wars were struggles between vendors to set a standard for the Unix operating system in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Both AT&T Corporation and...
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Shack TRS-80 Models I, II & III) PCOS (Olivetti M20) pSOS QNX Stratus VOS Sun UNIX (later SunOS) 0.7 Ultrix Unix System III VAXELN 1983 Coherent DNIX EOS...
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Apple Lisa (redirect from Lisa Office System)
released UNIX System III for $495 (equivalent to $1,600 in 2024). Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) published Microsoft Xenix (version 3), a Unix-like command-line...
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a number of Unix-like operating systems under active development, descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) series of UNIX variants developed...
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original 8-bit system functioned as an I/O subsystem. In this configuration it could run the relatively powerful MUTOS8000 (Unix System III derivative)....
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Bourne shell (redirect from System V Bourne Shell)
interpreter for computer operating systems. It first appeared on Version 7 Unix, as its default shell. Unix-like systems continue to have /bin/sh—which will...
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based on System III with a few system call additions from BSD), it was an important effort in early standardization of UNIX in a period when UNIX variants...
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Curses (programming library) (redirect from Unix curses)
curses is a terminal control library for Unix-like systems, enabling the construction of text user interface (TUI) applications. The name is a pun on...
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Echo (command) (category Standard Unix programs)
a UNIX System III-style implementation: BGRED=`echo "\033[41m"` FGBLUE=`echo "\033[35m"` BGGREEN=`echo "\033[42m"` NORMAL=`echo "\033[m"` Or a Unix Version...
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the first version of POSIX.1 and the Single Unix Specification. It first appeared in AT&T System III UNIX in 1982. The version of cut bundled in GNU coreutils...
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