• fortune is a program that displays a pseudorandom message from a database of quotations. Early versions of the program appeared in Version 7 Unix in 1979...
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  • USL v. BSDi was a lawsuit brought in New Jersey federal court in 1992 by Unix System Laboratories against Berkeley Software Design, Inc and the Regents...
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    Version 7 Unix, also called Seventh Edition Unix, Version 7 or just V7, was an important early release of the Unix operating system. V7, released in 1979...
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    servers also display a message of the day on login. System console fortune (Unix) A New Version of FAP (PDF) (Technical report). CTSS Bulletin. April...
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  • and MV Hyundai Fortune fortune, a Unix program Fortune, a typeface designed by Walter Baum Wikiquote has quotations related to Fortune. Fortuna (disambiguation)...
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  • Research Unix are early versions of the Unix operating system for DEC PDP-7, PDP-11, VAX and Interdata 7/32 and 8/32 computers, developed in the Bell...
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  • was released in 1987. Hack is still available for Unix, and is distributed alongside many modern Unix-like OSes, including Debian, Ubuntu, the BSDs, Fedora...
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    Dennis Ritchie (category Unix people)
    the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system and B language. Ritchie and Thompson were awarded the Turing...
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    Motorola 68000-based machine running Version 7 Unix, based on the Fortune 32:16, developed by Fortune Systems Corporation. It had a 68000 CPU clocked...
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  • announced they had no interest in suing people over Unix and stated "We don't believe there is Unix in Linux". The final district court ruling, on November...
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    Cowsay (category Unix software)
    Debian package of the day. The Unix command fortune can also be piped into the cowsay command: [user@hostname ~]$ fortune | cowsay ____________________...
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    attempted to compete directly with Microsoft by acquiring Digital Research, Unix System Laboratories, WordPerfect, and the Quattro Pro division of Borland...
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  • company existed as a manufacturer of Unix workstations between 1980 and 1987 and are most well known for their Fortune 32:16 line of Motorola 68000-based...
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    Caldera International sought to shape SCO's UnixWare product (renamed Open UNIX) to present a unified view of Unix and Linux that could satisfy high-end business...
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  • "Very few UNIX or XENIX computers can provide all of the features of the 586 for $8990", especially for multiuser turnkey business users. Fortune XP 20 Halamka...
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    known for owning Unix operating system assets that had belonged to the Santa Cruz Operation (the original SCO), including the UnixWare and OpenServer...
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    was philosophically aligned with Unix and thus became widely used both for other fortune programs as well as non-fortune purposes. ctags: a program for...
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    significantly to the evolution of several key computing technologies, among them Unix, RISC processors, thin client computing, and virtualized computing. Notable...
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  • 1980s, 3Com's UNET Unix system could exchange TCP/IP traffic over serial lines. In 1984 Adams implemented this system on Berkeley Unix 4.2 and dubbed it...
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    while working toward his doctorate. He built a multi-processor version of Unix for a 16-way computer system while at Carnegie Mellon University, before...
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  • corporations, including the Fortune 500 companies, alleging that the use of Linux may infringe a copyright they hold on the original UNIX source code. They say...
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  • in public appearances described UNIX as "snake oil". Some believed he was making a general characterization of UNIX, while others believed he was specifically...
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    codebase of the open source, Unix-like Linux operating system. In May 2003, SCO Group sent letters to members of the Fortune 1000 and Global 500 companies...
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  • Raymond Peck and Mark Box. The original product was a debugging tool for UNIX software applications written in C called Purify. After adding new products...
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    software firm in 2022. Salesforce ranked 491st on the 2023 edition of the Fortune 500, making $31,352 million in revenues. Since 2020, Salesforce has also...
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  • Windows NT (Intel and Alpha), VMS (VAX and Alpha), plus about 10 flavors of UNIX, and accessed over half-a-dozen different SQL databases. It was also ported...
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  • company that developed and marketed windowing products for Unix, supporting all the popular Unix platforms of the time. Founded in 1987, it was based in...
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    XP uses ROT13 on some of its registry keys. ROT13 is also used in the Unix fortune program to conceal potentially offensive dicta. ROT13 provides an opportunity...
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    used by over 400,000 clients worldwide, including 99% of the Fortune 100 and 98% of the Fortune 500. In 1989, Citrix was founded in Richardson, Texas, by...
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  • blocks. The shoe box consisted of an OS processor, running a version of Unix called TX, and on which applications ran, and an I/O processor, running a...
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