Unix

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multitasking operating system multiuser operating system operating system time-sharing system

Unix is a powerful, multiuser, multitasking operating system originally developed in the 1970s that has profoundly influenced modern computing and inspired many derivative systems like Linux and macOS.

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Observed surface forms (9)

Surface form Occurrences
UNIX 10
BSD 3
Unix operating system 2

Statements (57)

Predicate Object
instanceOf multitasking operating system ⓘ
multiuser operating system ⓘ
operating system ⓘ
time-sharing system ⓘ
designGoal multitasking ⓘ
multiuser support ⓘ
portability ⓘ
simplicity ⓘ
developer Bell Telephone Laboratories ⓘ
surface form: AT&T Bell Laboratories

Bell Telephone Laboratories ⓘ
surface form: Bell Labs

Brian Kernighan ⓘ
Dennis Ritchie ⓘ
Ken Thompson ⓘ
family Unix self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Unix operating systems
feature device-as-file abstraction ⓘ
hierarchical file system ⓘ
networking support ⓘ
permissions and user groups ⓘ
pipes and filters ⓘ
process control ⓘ
shell scripting ⓘ
text-based configuration ⓘ
hasVariant AIX ⓘ
BSD ⓘ
surface form: BSD Unix

HP-UX ⓘ
IRIX operating system ⓘ
surface form: IRIX

Solaris operating system ⓘ
surface form: SunOS

UNIX System V ⓘ
Xenix ⓘ
influenced AIX ⓘ
BSD ⓘ
FreeBSD ⓘ
HP-UX ⓘ
Linux ⓘ
NetBSD ⓘ
OpenBSD ⓘ
POSIX ⓘ
Solaris operating system ⓘ
surface form: Solaris

System V derivatives ⓘ
Unix-like operating systems ⓘ
macOS ⓘ
influencedBy Multics ⓘ
initialReleaseYear 1969 ⓘ
laterPlatform PDP-11 ⓘ
VAX ⓘ
licenseHistory originally proprietary ⓘ
notableConcept everything is a file ⓘ
small tools, loosely coupled ⓘ
originalPlatform PDP-7 ⓘ
programmingLanguage C ⓘ
standardizedBy POSIX ⓘ
Single UNIX Specification ⓘ
trademarkOwner The Open Group ⓘ
useCase academic computing ⓘ
scientific computing ⓘ
server operating system ⓘ
telecommunications systems ⓘ

Referenced by (47)

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this entity surface form: UNIX
NeXTSTEP → basedOn → Unix ⓘ
subject surface form: Solaris
this entity surface form: UNIX
macOS → basedOn → Unix ⓘ
this entity surface form: BSD
this entity surface form: SunOS
FreeBSD → family → Unix ⓘ
HP-UX → family → Unix ⓘ
Unix → family → Unix self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Unix operating systems
NLUUG Award → field → Unix ⓘ
this entity surface form: POSIX
Linux → inspiredBy → Unix ⓘ
this entity surface form: BSD
Dennis Ritchie → knownFor → Unix ⓘ
this entity surface form: Unix operating system
this entity surface form: Unix philosophy
this entity surface form: UNIX operating system
subject surface form: Arena
this entity surface form: BSD
this entity surface form: UNIX
subject surface form: Mosaic
this entity surface form: UNIX
this entity surface form: UNIX
this entity surface form: UNIX
this entity surface form: UNIX systems
this entity surface form: UNIX
SPARCstation → platform → Unix ⓘ
this entity surface form: UNIX
subject surface form: GNU is Not Unix
NLUUG Award → relatedTo → Unix ⓘ
this entity surface form: UNIX
this entity surface form: UNIX
C → usedToImplement → Unix ⓘ
this entity surface form: Unix operating system
Rob Pike → workedOn → Unix ⓘ