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Unix and Unix-Like Systems

This group gathers computing systems that are Unix or a Unix-like operating system, including the original Bell Labs Unix and its Research Unix lineage, the BSD family such as FreeBSD, 386BSD and BSD/OS, commercial vendor Unix implementations including Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Ultrix, DYNIX and DG/UX, Linux and its kernel and distributions, and third-party or platform-specific Unix ports and clones. Their shared identity is conforming to, or directly descending from, the Unix design and its POSIX-family interfaces, as distinct from a system that runs on an entirely different lineage such as DOS or a mainframe supervisor.

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1969 1
Unix and Unix-Like Systems
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1. Wikipedia: Unix
Wikimedia FoundationUnix, lead section, Bell Labs 1969 sentence
Quote, Unix, lead section, Bell Labs 1969 sentence
Unix ( , YOO-niks; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, the development of which started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.
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