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The word "Unix" refers to a fammily of operating systems descended from UNICS, way back in 1969.  The [[http://www.levenez.com/unix/ family tree]] is quite interesting.
The name "UNIX®" (in caps) is a trademark held by [[http://www.unix.org/what_is_unix.html The Open Group]], and covers a wide range of specific implementations conforming to the [[http://www.unix.org/v3-apis.html Single UNIX Specification]] (currently at version 3).
A few of the more commong implementations:
* [[FreeBSD]]
* [[FreeBSD]]
* [[HPUX]]
* [[IRIX]]
* [[Linux]]
* [[MacOSX]]
* [[NetBSD]]
* [[OpenBSD]]
* [[OpenBSD]]
* [[NetBSD]]
* [[Solaris]]
* [[Solaris]]
* [[Linux]]

Revision as of 14:02, 27 February 2006

The word "Unix" refers to a fammily of operating systems descended from UNICS, way back in 1969. The [family tree] is quite interesting.

The name "UNIX®" (in caps) is a trademark held by [The Open Group], and covers a wide range of specific implementations conforming to the [Single UNIX Specification] (currently at version 3).

A few of the more commong implementations: