Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A trademark for a computer operating system that allows multiple simultaneous users.
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- proper noun A computer operating system that shares the original source code by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, currently owned by Novell.
- proper noun An operating system largely compatible with Unix that qualifies for use of the Unix trademark, currently owned by The Open Group.
- proper noun informal A
Unix-like operating system similar to Unix but not qualifying for use of the Unix trademark. - proper noun The group of Unix operating systems as a whole.
Etymologies
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The data type time_t, used on operating systems such as Unix, is a 32-bit signed integer counting the number of seconds since the start of the Unix epoch (midnight UTC of January 1, 1970).
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Fundamental in Unix that work is divided into packets; each doing the thing it does well.
Mashups made of messages - tech talk at Open Hack London Mia 2009
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Fundamental in Unix that work is divided into packets; each doing the thing it does well.
Archive 2009-05-01 Mia 2009
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We already know that Unix is better than anything Dos or the NT kernel has to offer for its own reasons.
Win 7 Vs Mac OS X Leopard: Feature-by-Feature Showdown | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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LOL at mere mention of the word Unix freezing you solid …
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The history of Unix is the history of people working collectively to create a common good that was useful to all of them.
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This page describes, in Unix manual page style, a Perl program available for downloading from this site which corrects numerous errors and incompatibilities in HTML generated by, or edited with, Microsoft applications.
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This page describes, in Unix manual page style, a Perl program available for downloading from this site which corrects numerous errors and incompatibilities in HTML generated by, or edited with, Microsoft applications.
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The day approaches when the Unix internal clock (which ticks off the seconds since midnight GMT on 1/1/70) will hit 1,000,000,000 -- Unix is very nearly one billion seconds old.
Boing Boing: September 2, 2001 - September 8, 2001 Archives 2001
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The word Unix has traditionally brought to mind images of a mystical operating system for high-end workstations and servers that can only be accessed through a cryptic command line interface known as the Unix Shell.
unknown title 2009
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