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- See also changes related to Unix, or pages that link to Unix or to this page or whose text contains "Unix".
Parent topics
Bell Laboratories: R&D group, dating from ~1925, formed to create products for the Bell telephone company in the U.S.; by the early 1980s employed more than 330,000 technologists and had made many key advances in technology, but in 1983 broken up by government fiat to break its monopoly on telephone services; much smaller version still exists, centered in Murray Hill, NJ, and owned by Nokia Corporation after having changed hands multiple times since the 1983 divestiture. [e]
Operating system: The main software of a computer system; controls the execution of applications and provides various services to them. [e]
Subtopics
- Unix directory structure: A convention of the organization of the directory structure in Unix-like operating systems. [e]
- Berkeley Software Distribution: Free Unix distribution created by the University of California at Berkeley. [e]
- Linux: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Linux (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
- Mac OS X: BSD-based, POSIX-compatible graphical Unix operating system made by Apple for use on Macintosh computers. [e]
- POSIX: Add brief definition or description