UNIX
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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To access it, I had to call up a text-based mail client on Unix, using a series of line commands.
From New York Times • May 30, 2023
At the University of Michigan, I made gloves and lights and 3D displays on SGI or Unix workstations.
From The Verge • May 3, 2022
“No one has Unix nationwide server access at Boeing.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2020
According to Wired’s interview with those around at the inception of Unix, this 1/1/1970 date, known as the Unix “epoch,” was arbitrarily chosen for convenience.
From Slate • Oct. 21, 2019
Netscape’s first commercial browser—which could work on an IBM PC, an Apple Macintosh, or a Unix computer—was released in December 1994, and within a year it completely dominated the market.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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