Unix
Family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.
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Multi-user software
Computer software that allows access by multiple users of a computer.
Computer software that allows access by multiple users of a computer.
An example is a Unix or Unix-like system where multiple remote users have access (such as via a serial port or Secure Shell) to the Unix shell prompt at the same time.
HP-UX
HP-UX (from "Hewlett Packard Unix") is Hewlett Packard Enterprise's proprietary implementation of the Unix operating system, based on Unix System V (initially System III) and first released in 1984.
SunOS
SunOS is a Unix-branded operating system developed by Sun Microsystems for their workstation and server computer systems.
IBM AIX
AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive, pronounced, “ay-eye-ex”) is a series of proprietary Unix operating systems developed and sold by IBM for several of its computer platforms.
Xenix
Xenix is a discontinued version of the Unix operating system for various microcomputer platforms, licensed by Microsoft from AT&T Corporation in the late 1970s.
Sun Microsystems
American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the Network File System (NFS), VirtualBox, and SPARC microprocessors.
American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the Network File System (NFS), VirtualBox, and SPARC microprocessors.
Sun contributed significantly to the evolution of several key computing technologies, among them Unix, RISC processors, thin client computing, and virtualized computing.
Computer multitasking
Concurrent execution of multiple tasks over a certain period of time.
Concurrent execution of multiple tasks over a certain period of time.
Preemptive multitasking was implemented in the PDP-6 Monitor and MULTICS in 1964, in OS/360 MFT in 1967, and in Unix in 1969, and was available in some operating systems for computers as small as DEC's PDP-8; it is a core feature of all Unix-like operating systems, such as Linux, Solaris and BSD with its derivatives, as well as modern versions of Windows.
The Open Group
Global consortium that seeks to "enable the achievement of business objectives" by developing "open, vendor-neutral technology standards and certifications."
Global consortium that seeks to "enable the achievement of business objectives" by developing "open, vendor-neutral technology standards and certifications."
The Open Group is the certifying body for the UNIX trademark, and publishes the Single UNIX Specification technical standard, which extends the POSIX standards.
Single UNIX Specification
The Single UNIX Specification (SUS) is the collective name of a family of standards for computer operating systems, compliance with which is required to qualify for using the "UNIX" trademark.
C (programming language)
General-purpose computer programming language.
General-purpose computer programming language.
A successor to the programming language B, C was originally developed at Bell Labs by Dennis Ritchie between 1972 and 1973 to construct utilities running on Unix.