UNIX

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Unix

or UNIX  (yo͞o′nĭks)
A trademark for a computer operating system that allows multiple simultaneous users.
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UNIX

(ˈjuːnɪks)
n
(Computer Science) a multi-user multitasking operating system found on many types of computer
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UNIX

(ˈyu nɪks)
Trademark. a multiuser, multitasking computer operating system.
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Noun1.UNIX - trademark for a powerful operating system
UNIX operating system, UNIX system
operating system, OS - (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services
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In that month AT&T and Sun banded together with seventeen other manufacturers and formed a rival consortium: Unix International, a coalition of the willing that would back the AT&T UNIX System V version as the one true open standard.
Conceiving open systems
Its rival, Unix International, has already adopted Sun's NFS and RPC for its version of Unix.
Network computing provides missing links
If agreement had been reached between OSF, Unix International and other groups on use of common Unix APIs, NT wouldn't be around today he believes.
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