UNIX

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The company had a jolt in January, when IBM announced that it would buy a version of UNIX, another operating system, from one of Microsoft's competitors.

From Time Magazine Archive

While the selection of this format is critically important to computer companies, customers tend to be confused by the endless discussions over the relative merits of such systems as OS/2 and UNIX.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though sold under obscure brand names like CP/M, MS-DOS and UNIX, systems software for personal computers can be highly profitable, and last year sales totaled $500 million.

From Time Magazine Archive

In addition, AT&T is promoting UNIX, a system particularly efficient at performing several different tasks at once and communicating with other computers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Today, "hackers" commonly consider "Berkeley UNIX" to be technically superior to AT&T's "System V UNIX," but AT&T has not allowed mere technical elegance to intrude on the real-world business of marketing proprietary software.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce