Look up: UNIX

1. Unix
   (operating system) /yoo'niks/ (Or 'UNIX', in the authors' words, 'A weak pun on Multics') Plural 'Unices'. An interactive time-sharing operating system invented in 1969 by Ken Thompson after Bell Labs left the Multics project, originally so he could play games on his scavenged PDP-7. Dennis Ritchi...
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2. UNIX
   A boot strap program written to load an adventure game on a DEC PDP-8, modified by an astronomer, an archer, and a mathematician to demonstrate that all computing can be done on a PDP-11 in less then 10 keystrokes. Trademark of X/Open, Ltd. Modern reference implementations available include Berkely ...
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3. UNIX
   A major multi-user multiprocessing operating system, which is the leading operating system for minicomputers. Bell Laboratories developed it in the early 1970s. It is written in a high-level programming language called C.
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4. Unix
   A computer operating system which allows multiple clients to access one host at the same time.
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5. Unix
   an operating system that supports multitasking and is ideally suited to multi-user applications (such as networks).
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6. UNIX
   [n] - a powerful operating system developed at the Bell Telephone Laboratories
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7. UNIX
   (AT&T Bell Laboratories Operating System)
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8. UNIX
   Uniplexed Information Computing Service. An operating system widely used in computers employing RISC technology. Has much greater functionality than DOS from a system viewpoint and supports open system objectives on medium and large system servers.
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9. UNIX
   A multi-user operating system developed by AT&T Bell Labs and currently popular as an application server operating system.
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10. UNIX
    An operating system dating back to 1970 still widely used for Networks of various sorts (most Internet infrastructure machines use some form of UNIX) and increasingly as a personal operating system. It is designed to be secure and extremely reliable - systems can run continuously for years. Availabl...
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11. Unix
    the operating system used by most of the computers that provide services on the Internet - unlike a personal computer system like RISC OS, Unix is designed to provide access to many users at once and almost always comes with built-in TCP/IP and so it has become very popular as a network machine - th...
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12. UNIX
    A powerful if difficult to use operating system that can be run on almost any computer. It is widely used on the PC under the title of Linux where it is more popular than Windows. The most advanced Amiga port is NetBSD.
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13. UNIX
    A computer operating system. UNIX is designed to be used by many people at the same time and has TCP/IP built-in. It is the most common operating system for servers on the Internet.
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14. Unix
    an operating system that supports multitasking and is ideally suited to multi-user applications (such as networks).
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15. Unix
    A popular family of operating systems, due to its availability on more than one hardware platform. The different versions of Unix that exist are referred to as ‘flavours`. In the commercial world, Unix can be found on servers. In the homes of technologists it can be found on PCs.
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16. UNIX
    UNIX system noun trademark for a powerful operating system
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17. UNIX
    (from the article `Digital Equipment Corporation`) ...(Virtual Memory System), became popular among software developers, giving VAX users a large selection of software applications. In the early ... ...two Bell Labs workers, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, wrote their own operating system. Since the operating system was inspired by Mul...
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18. UNIX
    UNIX is a terminal based operation system in which 'dumb' terminals are communicating back to a 'smart' processing unit or host.
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19. Unix
    A computer operating system (the basic software running on a computer, underneath things like word processors and spreadsheets). Unix is designed to be used by many people at the same time (it is multi-user) and has TCP/IP built-in. It is the most common operating system for servers on the Internet....
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20. Unix
    UNIX (In the authors' words, 'A weak pun on Multics') is an interactive time-sharing computer operating system originally invented in 1969 by Ken Thompson after Bell Labs left the Multics project, originally so he could play games on his scavenged PDP-7. Dennis Ritchie, the inventor of the programmi...
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21. Unix
    Multiuser operating system designed for mid-range computers but also used on workstations, mainframes, and supercomputers. Unix was developed by AT&T's Bell Laboratories in the USA during the late 1960s, using the programming language C. It could therefore run on any machine with a C compiler, so ensuring its wide portability. Its wide ...
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22. Unix
    `Unix` (officially trademarked as `UNIX`, sometimes also written as <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Unix</span>) is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis ...
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