UNIX
Americannoun
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Mac can run Unix programs, and Windows cannot.
From Washington Post • Jul. 30, 2021
Now you can run Linux inside Windows 10, macOS is transparently based on Unix, and both companies have to interact with and contribute to open source software or risk being made irrelevant.
From The Verge • Feb. 17, 2018
He shouts commands at his dog in Unix, an early computer operating system, and is “fully post-meal,” subsisting on endless snacks like frozen dumplings.
From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2015
Perhaps the job would provide an island for us to gather and put our degrees to use by memorizing Unix commands and assuaging customer fears about their missing copy of Memoirs of a Geisha.
From Salon • Nov. 26, 2015
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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