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Full Name
UNIX
Information
Originally conceived as a play on the term Multics - an early time-sharing operating system developed by Honeywell in the late 60's - UNIX was a time-sharing operating system developed in a division of AT&T to support printing of Patent applications. Over a number of years its use grew in the academic Computer Science community around the world until in the late 70's and early 80's it began to emerge in a range of variants across a large number of commercial mini-computer hardware platforms.
Today is found in a number of variants - Solaris on SUN hardware, AIX on IBM and HPUX and HP hardware. Another variant, Tru64 was orginally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), a company which was taken over by Compaq which in turn was acquired by Hewlett-Packard (HP).
Related Links
- UNIX.org web site
- Wikipedia entry on UNIX
- Also see entry on Linux