Unix System Laboratories (USL), sometimes written UNIX System Laboratories to follow relevant trademark guidelines of the time, was an American software...
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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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BSDi was a lawsuit brought in New Jersey federal court in 1992 by Unix System Laboratories against Berkeley Software Design, Inc. and the Regents of the University...
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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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released in 1979, was the last Bell Laboratories release to see widespread distribution before the commercialization of Unix by AT&T Corporation in the early...
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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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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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Novell (redirect from Novell Unix Systems Group)
compete directly with Microsoft by acquiring Digital Research, Unix System Laboratories, WordPerfect, and the Quattro Pro division of Borland. These moves...
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SINIX/Reliant UNIX, UnixWare and SCO OpenServer.[citation needed] VxFS was originally developed for AT&T's Unix System Laboratories. VxFS is packaged...
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Berkeley Software Distribution (redirect from BSD Unix)
(BSD), also known as Berkeley Unix, is a discontinued Unix operating system developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the...
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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 Unix...
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Research Unix refers to the early versions of the Unix operating system for DEC PDP-7, PDP-11, VAX and Interdata 7/32 and 8/32 computers, developed in...
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UnixWare is a Unix operating system. It was originally released by Univel, a jointly owned venture of AT&T's Unix System Laboratories (USL) and Novell...
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Programmers Guide to UNIX System V. Berkeley, CA: Osborne McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-881211-9. UNIX System Laboratories (1995). System V Application Binary...
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However, this resulted in a lawsuit with Unix System Laboratories, the AT&T subsidiary responsible for Unix. Eventually, in the 1990s, the final versions...
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MoOLIT (category Unix programming tools)
interface (API) created by Unix System Laboratories in an attempt to create a bridge between the two competing look-and-feels for Unix workstations at the time:...
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Former United States Lines shipping company Universal Systems Language Former US Unix System Laboratories University of Louisiana at Lafayette, formerly University...
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Bell Labs (redirect from Bell Laboratories)
at Bell Laboratories. Bell Labs had its origin in the complex corporate organization of the Bell System telephone conglomerate. The laboratory began operating...
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It is based on the experience of leading developers of the Unix operating system. Early Unix developers were important in bringing the concepts of modularity...
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Univel (category Unix history)
and AT&T's Unix System Laboratories (USL) that was formed in December 1991 to develop and market the Destiny desktop Unix operating system, which was...
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tr is a command in Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and Unix-like operating systems. It is an abbreviation of translate or transliterate, indicating its operation...
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the Beginning: Unix at Bell Labs". self. Ritchie, Dennis M. (1984). "The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System". AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Journal...
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specification for the application binary interface (ABI) of the Unix operating system version named System V Release 4 (SVR4), and later in the Tool Interface Standard...
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Getopts (category Unix SUS2008 utilities)
The predecessor to getopts was the external program getopt by Unix System Laboratories. The original getopt had several problems: it could not handle...
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The Bell System held a virtual monopoly over telephony infrastructure in the United States from around the early 20th century until January 8, 1982. This...
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386BSD (category Discontinued operating systems)
386BSD (also known as "Jolix") is a Unix-like operating system that was developed by couple Lynne and William "Bill" Jolitz. Released as free and open...
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called "Unix license" Unix System Laboratories, the division that developed unix, especially the System V family SCOsource, the owner of unix intellectual...
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file with a shebang is used as if it were an executable in a Unix-like operating system, the program loader mechanism parses the rest of the file's initial...
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Troff (category Unix text processing utilities)
troff was one of several UNIX tools available for Charles River Data Systems' UNOS operating system under Bell Laboratories license. The troff collection...
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almost given up, sold most of its stake in Sun, spun the Unix business off as Unix System Laboratories (which was later bought by Novell), canceled its WE...
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