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Encyclopedia: Unix wars

The Unix wars were the struggles between vendors of the Unix computer operating system in the late 1980s and early 1990s to set the standard for Unix thenceforth. These battles are commonly said to have harmed the market acceptance of Unix and created a market gap that allowed the rise of Windows NT.

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UNIX戦争

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OSF/1

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The Open Group

. A similar organisation to the Open Group is the W3C. See also : UNIX wars Inventions and standards... its publication of the Single UNIX Specification paper, which (in the eyes of many OS developers) is quickly superseding the POSIX standards. In addition, it is the owner of the UNIX trademark. The Open...

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Fork (software)

proprietary Energize environment. The split of BSD from AT&T UNIX. The many varieties of proprietary UNIX — all derived from AT&T UNIX and all called "UNIX", but increasingly mutually incompatible. See UNIX wars. The development of the NTFS filesystem by Microsoft based upon previous work on HPFS that was...

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Single UNIX Specification

of several major vendors in the wake of the UNIX wars because it was available for free, whereas the... The Single UNIX Specification ( SUS ) is the collective name of a family of standards for computer operating systems to qualify for the name "Unix". The SUS is developed and maintained by the Austin...

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