The names of the beast.

Scott Bradner sob at harvisr.harvard.edu
Sun Jul 16 22:00:43 AEST 1989


I'm preparing a talk on UNIX(tm) for IBMers and am trying to update my
list of the various names for UNIX(tm).  If you see errors of commission
or omission please send me a note. (Yes I'll post the final list.)

Thanks

Scott Bradner
Harvard University
sob at harvard.harvard.edu
...!harvard!sob

386/ix		Interactive Systems
42nix		Whitechapel
ABCenix		DIAB
Accel		Celerity
AIX		IBM
AMIX		Amega
AOS		IBM
Arix		Arix Corp.
ASTR-IX		NEC
A/UX		Apple Computer
AUX		Apollo
BSD		University of Calf. Berkeley
Centix		Convergent Technology
CLIX		Fairchild
Coherent	Mark Williams
Concentrix	Alliant
CPIX		IBM
Cromix 		Cromemco
C-XIX		Counterpoint
CTIX		Convergent Technology
Desktop/UX	Data General
DG/UX		Data General
Distrix		Convergent Technology
DNIX		DIAB
Domain/IX	Apollo
Domain/OS	Apollo
DRS/NX		ICL
Dualix		Dual
DVIX		Northern Telecom
Dynix		Sequent
edition7	Concurrent Computer
Eighth Edition	AT&T
ENIX		ELXSI
Eunice		The Wollongong Group
For:Pro		Fortune
Genix		National Semiconductor
GNU		Free Software Foundation
GX		Transport Canada
HCX/UX		Harris
HP-UX		Hewlett-Packard
ICON/UXB	Icon
INIX		Compugraphic
IN/ix		Wang
IDRIS		Whitesmiths
Iris		Silicon Graphics
IS/1		Interactive Systems
IS/3		Interactive Systems
IS/WB		Interactive Systems
IX/370 		IBM
LynxOS		Lynx Real-Time Systems
Mach		CMU
MERT		AT&T
MORE/bsd	Mt. Xinu
MKS Toolkit	Mortice Kern Systems
Minix		Andrew Tanenbaum
MPX		Philips
MS-UX		NEC
Munix		Cadmus
MV/UX		Data General
Mxelos		Perkin-Elmer
NDIX		Norsk Data
Nuxi		Instruction Set (London)
Opus 5		Opus Systems
OSF/1		Open Software Foundation
Osnix		Osiris
OSx		Pyramid
PC/IX		IBM
PC-UX		NEC
Perpos		Computer Consoles Inc.
POSIX		IEEE
Primix		Pr1me
Regulus		Alcyon Corp.
ROS		Ridge
RTU		Masscomp
Scenix		Scientific Computer Systems
Sinix		Siemens
Sironix		Unison
SunOS		Sun Microsystems
Symmetrix	Symmetric
sysV68		Logic Process
System V/386	Microport
System V/AT	Microport
SX/1100		Unisys
SX/AR E20	Panafacom
TAU		Associated Computer Experts
Topix		Sequoia
Tower Operating Sys.	NCR
TX		Tolerant Systems
UCOS		Honeywell-BULL
UMAX		Encore
UMIPS		Mips
UniCOS		Cray
UniFLEX		Technical Systems Consulting
UniStride	MicroSage
Uniq		Uniq Digital Technologys
Unity		HCR
UniPlus+		UniSoft
UNIX\(tm		AT&T
UNOS		Charles River Data Systems
UTS		Amdahl
UTX/32		Gould
UTek		Tektronix
ULTRIX		DEC
UN/V		Vinix
V7M		DEC
VM/IX		IBM
VS IN/ix	Wang
VX/VE		CDC
Venix		VentureCom
Xelos		Concurrent Computer
Xenix		Microsoft
XINU		Doug Comer (semi-clone)
Zeus		Zilog



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