Open Software Foundation (category Unix history)
creating an open standard for an implementation of the operating system Unix. It was formed in 1988 and merged with X/Open in 1996, to become The Open...
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Ridge Computers (section Groupe Bull)
structure is significantly different from that of Unix. The ROS kernel and that of the related Groupe Bull SPS 9 OS were described as microkernels by the...
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Santa Cruz Operation (category Unix history)
selling three Unix operating system variants for Intel x86 processors: Xenix, SCO UNIX (later known as SCO OpenDesktop and SCO OpenServer), and UnixWare. SCO...
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in a variety of Unix-like operating systems, and to an extent in Windows NT. The first commercial implementation of a NUMA-based Unix system was[where...
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recent versions (GCOS 7 and GCOS 8) on servers and mainframes produced by Groupe Bull, primarily through emulation, to provide continuity with legacy mainframe...
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mechanisms, it is possible that some may provide all of them. Available in early Unix. In a multitasking operating system, processing can be distributed across...
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Dataindustrier AB (section UNIX computers)
as DIAB DS-90 and develop a series of Unix-compatible computers, using code licensed from AT&T Version 5 Unix release, but with a unique in-house kernel...
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sizes. X Window System for Unix emerged around June 1984 (derived from the earlier W windowing environment). At the time, Unix personal computers were not...
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1980s observers saw the Pick Operating System as a strong competitor to Unix. BYTE in 1984 stated that "Pick is simple and powerful, and it seems to be...
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or simply Slurm, is a free and open-source job scheduler for Linux and Unix-like kernels, used by many of the world's supercomputers and computer clusters...
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of Research and Development. Vance, Ashlee (4 October 2005). "IBM pumps Unix line full of Power5+". The Register. Sizing up the Super Heavyweights, a...
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The early, R3000-based Magnum series ran only RISC/os, a variant of BSD Unix, but the subsequent Magnum workstations based on the Jazz architecture ran...
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Workstations in addition to workstations running IRIX, the company's version of UNIX. This put the company in even more direct competition with the likes of Dell...
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3166 trigram) GnRH – (p) Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone GNU – (a) GNU's Not Unix GO – (s) Glorioso Islands (FIPS 10-4 territory code) GOA (s) General of the...
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History of IBM (section IBM and AIX/UNIX/Linux/SCO)
adapting swiftly to the burgeoning Unix open systems and personal computer revolutions. Desktop machines and Unix midrange computers emerged as cost-effective...
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DNIX (category UNIX System V)
DNIX (original spelling: D-Nix) is a discontinued Unix-like real-time operating system from the Swedish company Dataindustrier AB (DIAB). A version named...
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1982, NCR became involved in open systems architecture, starting with the UNIX-powered TOWER 16/32, and placed more emphasis on computers smaller than mainframes...
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and found very little use. The sole user of PowerPC 620 was Groupe Bull in its Escala UNIX machines, but they didn't deliver any large numbers. IBM, which...
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vulnerabilities in the low single digits, as compared to thousands for Windows, UNIX, and Linux. Software upgrades usually require setting up the operating system...
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system project. The design and features of Multics greatly influenced the Unix operating system. Multics influenced many of the features of Honeywell/GE's...
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operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the UNIX operating system" Bell Labs Dennis Ritchie 1984 Niklaus Wirth "For developing...
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brought about the development of important new operating systems such as Unix. In November 1966, Hewlett-Packard introduced the 2116A minicomputer, one...
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Czechoslovakia, where a licensing agreement was signed with the French Groupe Bull. Non-Soviet Eastern European countries had more access to Western technology...
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algebraic geometry and number theory. He also wrote and co-authored several Unix and Linux libraries starting in the 1990s, including xpaint, sunclock, and...
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farthest from it, applying the term in a metaphorical sense[citation needed]. Unix was the operating system used on scientific workstations in the 1990s, such...
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Mulu Caves Project. The Mulu Caves Project. Retrieved January 3, 2012. "Groupe Speleo Vulcain (France) - Surveys made by the club". Archived from the original...
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