UNIX
Americannoun
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Though sold under obscure brand names like CP/M, MS-DOS and UNIX, systems software for personal computers can be highly profitable, and last year sales totaled $500 million.
From Time Magazine Archive
The company had a jolt in January, when IBM announced that it would buy a version of UNIX, another operating system, from one of Microsoft's competitors.
From Time Magazine Archive
In addition, AT&T is promoting UNIX, a system particularly efficient at performing several different tasks at once and communicating with other computers.
From Time Magazine Archive
While the selection of this format is critically important to computer companies, customers tend to be confused by the endless discussions over the relative merits of such systems as OS/2 and UNIX.
From Time Magazine Archive
Problem: this may instead cause an illegal-address trap on non-VAXen, and even on VAXen under OSes other than BSD UNIX.
From The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 by Raymond, Eric S.
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