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    A Commentary on the Sixth Edition UNIX Operating System by John Lions (later reissued as Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition and commonly referred to...
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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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    Edition Unix, also called Version 6 Unix or just V6 is a version of the Unix operating system first released in May 1975 and the first version of the Unix operating...
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    UNSW School of Computer Science and Engineering (category Cleanup tagged articles with a reason field from August 2016)
    the UNIX operating system, a two-volume book entitled, a Source Code and Commentary on Unix Level 6) (A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System) who passed...
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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 the Bell...
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    all other Unix variants having only a negligible market share (see Usage share of operating systems). Comparison of operating systems The Unix Heritage...
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    Amiga Unix (informally known as Amix) is a discontinued full port of AT&T Unix System V Release 4 operating system developed by Commodore-Amiga, Inc. in...
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    Xv6 (category Educational operating systems)
    was published in a similar form in Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code. xv6 has been used in operating systems courses at many universities...
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    it was responsible for the development and maintenance of one of the main branches of the Unix operating system, the UNIX System V Release 4 source code...
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    Passwd (category Inferno (operating system) commands)
    passwd is a command on Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and most Unix-like operating systems used to change a user's password. The password entered by the user is...
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  • level, after the PDP-11 assembler instruction of the same name) is the name for a collection of Unix kernel routines or macros used to change the interrupt...
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    John Lions (category Unix people)
    best known as the author of Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code, commonly known as the Lions Book. Lions gained a degree with first-class...
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  • Standard streams (category Unix)
    display of the output stream on the display. In most operating systems predating Unix, programs had to explicitly connect to the appropriate input and output...
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  • Configure script (category Unix programming tools)
    installing a package on a Unix or Unix-like environment, a configure script is a shell script that generates build configuration files for a codebase to...
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    SCO Group (redirect from The SCO Group)
    known for owning Unix operating system assets that had belonged to the Santa Cruz Operation (the original SCO), including the UnixWare and OpenServer...
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  • ISBN 978-0380815937). The essay is a commentary on why the proprietary operating systems business is unlikely to remain profitable in the future because of...
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    Linux kernel (category Operating systems)
    was soon adopted as the kernel for the GNU operating system (OS) which was created to be a free replacement for Unix. Since the late 1990s, it has been...
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    larger. The Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) of Unix began the era of larger kernels. In addition to operating a basic system consisting of the CPU,...
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  • Semiconductor, indicating a 1 MB system with hard disks and "Acorn, Unix or Idris operating systems" at an estimated price of around $3500, with a second processor...
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  • to run on Macintosh computers. It was the first web browser for the classic Mac OS platform, and the first for any non-Unix operating system. MacWWW...
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    Amiga (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    McIlroy. "OS/2 Eric S. Raymond Operating System Comparisons The Art of Unix Programming". Catb.org. Archived from the original on 2013-05-20. Retrieved 2013-07-24...
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  • 1989. Since then versions have been released for a number of other architectures and operating systems. PKZIP was originally written by Phil Katz and marketed...
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  • such as the Motorola 68000 family of CPUs, programming languages including various C compilers, and the Unix operating system. He authored the "Devil's...
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  • largely as an extension of the already present Unix gaming scene, which dates back to that system's conception in 1969 with the game Space Travel[self-published...
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  • Torch Computers (category Defunct computer companies of the United Kingdom)
    a Z80 processor and featuring CPN as the operating system, or X, indicating Z80 and 68000 processors and featuring CPN or Unix as operating systems....
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    GNU Emacs (category Unix text editors)
    for Unix operating systems. GNU Emacs has been a central component of the GNU project and a flagship project of the free software movement. The program's...
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  • Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was the direct successor to Windows XP, released five years...
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  • this exploit. Operating systems other than Windows (e.g., macOS, Unix, Linux, etc.) are not directly affected. However, a non-Windows system could become...
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  • History of Microsoft (category History of the Internet)
    Operation in order to port/adapt the operating system to several platforms. This Unix variant would become home to the first version of Microsoft's word...
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  • Jargon File (redirect from Unix koan)
    operating more than a dozen TOPS-20 systems, but by the mid-1980s, most of the interesting software work was being done on the emerging BSD Unix standard. In...
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