FREE MEMBERSHIP - Create your personalized Bitpipe Service!  Members: Sign in 
Search Bitpipe: 
  Search Help
Software  >  Systems Software  >  Operating Systems  >  Mainframe Operating Systems  >  

UNIX

ALSO CALLED: Advanced Interactive Executive, BSD UNIX, AIX, Irix, HP-UX, Berkeley Source Distribution, Xenix, Santa Cruz Operation UNIX, IBM AIX, Berkeley UNIX, SCO UNIX, Ultrix, Intel-based UNIX, and HPUX
DEFINITION: Unix (often spelled "UNIX," especially as an official trademark) is an operating system that originated at Bell Labs in 1969 as an interactive time-sharing system. Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie are considered the inventors of Unix. The name (pronounced YEW-nihks)  … 
Definition continues below.


Add UNIX to your RSS Reader: RSS Feed    Add to Google     Add to My Yahoo!
   ALL     WHITE PAPERS   MULTIMEDIA   IT DOWNLOADS   PRODUCTS   COMPANIES 
Limit Results:
Sort by:
1 - 10 of 29 Matches
TCO Calculator: Migrate from Solaris to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell
sponsored by Novell Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This TCO Calculator is designed to show the savings organizations can realize by migrating from Solaris 8 or 9 on Spark to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on x86 hardware.
Posted: 22 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jul 2008
Get This Now

The Value of Power VM Workload Partitions: New Virtualization Options in IBM AIX v6.1
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This white paper from the Sageza Group, Inc. explains why Workload Partitions (WPARs) are a more cost-effective way to meet the needs of your organization.
Posted: 18 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Feb 2008
Get This Now

Unix, Linux Uptime and Reliability Increase; Patch Management Woes Plague Windows
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Yankee Group survey finds IBM AIX Unix is highest in reliability.
Posted: 17 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2008
Get This Now

GCC Quick Reference Guide
sponsored by AMD
PRODUCT LITERATURE: This article is a quick reference guide to the different aggressive flags controlling optimization in GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and their purposes.
Posted: 12 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2008
Get This Now

MKS Toolkit for Developers v 9.2
sponsored by MKS, Inc.
TRIAL SOFTWARE: This IT Download, MKS Toolkit for Developers, offers a comprehensive suite of UNIX and Windows utilities, allowing for greater platform and application compatibility, connectivity and interoperability.
Posted: 10 Jun 2008 | Published: 04 Jun 2008
Get This Now

Moving to Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance in Three Days Using EventTracker
sponsored by Prism Microsystems Inc.
WHITE PAPER: The purpose of this document is to explain how EventTracker can help your organization meet the audit reporting requirements of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX).
Posted: 30 May 2008 | Published: 10 Jan 2007
Get This Now

EventTracker - Fact Sheet
sponsored by Prism Microsystems Inc.
PRODUCT LITERATURE: EventTracker is both highly scalable and cost effective and includes a comprehensive automated compliance solution, EventTracker is quick to implement and despite its advanced functionality is both easy to use and maintain.
Posted: 30 May 2008 | Published: 01 May 2008
Get This Now

Managing 21st Century Business and Technology Innovation: Core Banking Transformation with System z
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This paper provides practical insights into global best practices and the strategic benefits of core banking transformation through the lens of the CEO, COO and CIO.
Posted: 14 May 2008 | Published: 01 Oct 2007
Get This Now

HP Customer Perspective White Paper: Best Practices for Implementing HP Quality Center Software
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER: This paper offers a structured approach to planning and implementing HP Quality Center, an integrated, web-based suite of tools and best practices for automated software quality testing.
Posted: 29 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Jun 2007
Get This Now

ROC Rhapsody™ Print and Output Management for Linux, Windows & UNIX
sponsored by ROC Software
SOFTWARE LISTING: ROC Software provides a top solution that masters both print and digital output management: ROC Rhapsody™ Document Output Management.
Posted: 27 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008
Get This Now

1 - 10 of 29 Matches
Page: 2 3 
 
UNIX DEFINITION (continued): …  was a pun based on an earlier system, Multics. In 1974, Unix became the first operating system written in the C language. Unix has evolved as a kind of large freeware product, with many extensions and new ideas provided in a variety of versions of Unix by different companies, universities, and individuals.

Partly because it was not a proprietary operating system owned by any one of the leading computer companies and partly because it is written in a standard … 
UNIX definition sponsored by SearchEnterpriseLinux.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary



Home | About Us | Contact Us | Advertise with Us | Partner with Us | Site Index
TechTarget provides enterprise IT professionals with the information they need to perform their jobs - from developing strategy, to making cost-effective IT purchase decisions and managing their organizations' IT projects - with its network of technology-specific Web sites, events and magazines

Definitions: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Other   TechTarget - The Most Targeted IT Media
TechTarget Corporate Web Site  |   Media Kits  |   Site Map




All Rights Reserved, Copyright 2000 - 2007, TechTarget | Read our Privacy Statement