UNIX and real-time and when is UNIX UNIX

Henry Spencer henry at utzoo.UUCP
Fri Nov 16 07:10:17 AEST 1984


> I think the official legal definition is that ATT's
> implementation of Unix System V and the implementations
> done by Motorola, National, Zilog and Intel under
> agreement with ATT are the only items that can be
> called "the Unix operating system".

Basically correct, except that you're forgetting a few earlier releases
of Unix from Bell, notably V6 and V7.  And if you want to be fussy, the
official form of the word is "UNIX", not "Unix".  Bletch.
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