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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Message of the day (redirect from Motd (unix))
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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Hack (video game) (redirect from Hack (Unix video game))
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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Thomson computers (redirect from Fortune 32:16)
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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SCO–Linux disputes (section UNIX SVRx)
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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Novell (redirect from Novell Unix Systems Group)
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 (redirect from Unifying Unix with Linux for Business)
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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