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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)  … 
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MKS X/Server v 8.5
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TRIAL SOFTWARE: Interoperability is a crucial topic that many IT professionals face in day-to-day environments specifically with Windows, Linux and UNIX. This demonstrated product is the ideal solution.
Posted: 01 Sep 2008 | Published: 01 Sep 2008
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MKS Toolkit for Developers v 9.2
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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
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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 … 
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