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Topic: UNIX Systems Laboratories


  
  Unix System Laboratories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Unix System Laboratories or USL was originally organized as part of Bell Labs in 1989.
Unix System Laboratories was the plaintiff in the USL v.
USL asked the court for a preliminary injunction that would bar BSDi and the UC Berkeley from distributing the NET-2 software until the case was concluded.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/UNIX_Systems_Laboratories   (201 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Unix's influence in academic circles led to large-scale adoption (particularly of the BSD variant, originating from the University of California, Berkeley) of Unix by commercial startups, the most notable of which is Sun Microsystems.
The Unix environment and the client-server program model were essential elements in the development of the Internet and the reshaping of computing as centered in networks rather than in individual computers.
Both Unix and the C programming language were developed by ATandT and distributed to government and academic institutions, causing both to be ported to a wider variety of machine families than any other operating system.
www.gamecheatz.net /games.php?title=Unix   (5359 words)

  
 Introduction To Unix
UNIX is a mature family of operating systems with a proven track record for performance, reliability, and security in a server environment.
UNIX kernel is re-written in C. The prevailing belief at that time was that an OS had to be written in assembly language to provide reasonable efficiency and to get access to the hardware.
UNIX is the operating system of most large Internet servers, businesses and universities, and a major part of academic and industrial research in operating systems is based on UNIX.
www.austincc.edu /akochis/unix/u001.htm   (706 words)

  
 Unix
UNIX is portable from large systems to medium-sized systems to single user systems.  Some say its portability is due to the fact that it is written in a high-level language, C, instead of assembly language, as are most operating systems.
UNIX's commands are so brief that novice users find the operating system unfriendly.  UNIX was written when only programmers used computers.  It was written by programmers for programmers and the commands made sense to those writing UNIX.  They do not always make sense to today's computer users.
UNIX is a powerful, yet user unfriendly, operating system.  And a lack of standards has made UNIX a difficult platform on which to code commercially available programs.  However, the availability of UNIX in academia has made it the operating system of choice of the new generation of programmers. 
www.tristate.edu /faculty/barge/cs103/articles/unix.htm   (1207 words)

  
 UNIX
UNIX ® systems are ideal for providing services from a core group of computers to a heterogeneous group of clients.
UNIX gave rise to the Internet and the Web, as well as the C language, which is at the heart of virtually every component in a modern computer system.
The UNIX name, originally held by ATandT and the UNIX Systems Laboratories, was granted to the X/Open Group in 1995, which is now The Open Group.
members.cox.net /zzzsolutions/unix.htm   (468 words)

  
 Europe's Unix vendors cheer Novell/USL deal - Unix Systems Laboratories Inc Software Magazine - Find Articles
Suppliers say hardware-independent Unix fortifies their ability to repel Windows NT European software and hardware vendors of Unix systems believe that Novell, Inc.'s proposed acquisition of Unix System Laboratories (USL) will help them present a united front against the challenge from Microsoft's Windows NT (New Technology).
In Europe, most Unix suppliers were encouraged by Provo, Utah-based Novell's $350 million acquisition of Summit, N.J.-based USL from AT&T. They think the deal will strengthen their ability to repel Windows NT.
Unix suppliers are moving to fend off the threat from Windows NT -- even before it materializes -- with a raft of products aimed at the desktop, such as those from USL, Sun and SCO.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0SMG/is_n4_v13/ai_13507656   (899 words)

  
 The Creation of the UNIX* Operating System: Business gets the word   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
What made UNIX popular for business applications was its timesharing, multitasking capability, permitting many people to use the mini- or mainframe; its portability across different vendor's machines; and its e-mail capability.
As the versions of UNIX grew in number, the UNIX System Group (USG), which had been formed in the 1970s as a support organization for the internal Bell System use of UNIX, was reorganized as the UNIX Software Operation (USO) in 1989.
Two of the earliest applications of UNIX for telecommunications operations support systems were the Centralized Automatic Reporting on Trunks (CAROT) system and the Loop Management Operations System (LMOS), two Bell Labs efforts that monitored the health of transmission facilities in the Bell System.
www.bell-labs.com /history/unix/business.html   (345 words)

  
 UNIX systems are "Open"
Because UNIX systems communicate through industry-standard TCP/IP communication protocols, and use an industry-standard interface based on an X-Windows and Motif graphical environment, and share disk drives through the use of industry-standard NFS technology, they are called "open systems".
UNIX operating systems typically start with source code that is now licensed by Novell, Inc. Novell's UNIX Systems Group licenses the actual UNIX source code to vendors such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, SCO (Santa Cruz Operation), and many others.
This sharing of technology between UNIX vendors is in stark contrast to other vendors operating systems, which are labeled "proprietary".
www.devdaily.com /unix/edu/UnixSysAdmin/node11.shtml   (180 words)

  
 UNIX
The name "Unix" was intended as a pun on the mainframe OS called Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service) and was written "Unics" at first (UNiplexed Information and Computing System).
Unix was first made by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at Bell-Labs.com in 1969.
Unix has been going through a revival since the early 1990s when open-source variations of UNIX started becoming popular.
www.georgehernandez.com /h/xComputers/UNIX   (553 words)

  
 UnixWorld | Book Report | Tru64 UNIX File System Administration Handbook | Full Article | June 25, 2001
This is where the operating system stores and manipulates all of the information that enables both it and other applications to function.
In other words, if Tru64 Unix is an automobile engine, then the file system is the microprocessor that keeps all of the engine components working together efficiently.
Furthermore, this book is written primarily for systems administrators, systems and software engineers, software support specialists and others who must optimize the performance of, as well as perform advanced troubleshooting on, Tru64 Unix file systems.
www.networkcomputing.com /unixworld/1213/1213uw.html   (1578 words)

  
 UNIX Overview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
An operating system is the program that controls all the other parts of a computer system, both the hardware and the software.
UNIX has become the operating system of choice for engineering and scientific workstations.
System V and BSD contain a large set of commands in common.
www.cis.rit.edu /class/simg211/unixintro/Whatis.html   (821 words)

  
 Unix labs: Will marketing equal technology? - Unix Systems Laboratories readies debut of Destiny operating system ...
It's being billed as a "technology release" of the new operating system, but the actual code could almost be beside the point, Roel Pieper, president of the AT&T affiliate, said in an interview last week.
"The Unix industry had a strange mind-set in bringing leading technology to some kind of fruition and moving on to the next level" before full acceptance was won, he said.
Some of the effort will derive from USL's own staff, which has grown from the "mid-400s" in late 1990, when AT&T prepared to put USL on a more independent footing, to the "low 700s" currently, with most of the gain going to sales and marketing, Mr.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EKF/is_n1916_v38/ai_12326440   (714 words)

  
 Unix lawsuit agreement raises questions for SCO | InfoWorld | News | 2004-12-01 | By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service
Though software developers generally understood that source code from one of the major variants of Unix, called the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), could be freely redistributed in the Linux operating system, the release of the agreement makes those terms public for the first time.
SCO eventually acquired a number of USL's Unix assets -- though exactly which assets it owns is presently the subject of a lawsuit -- and the Lindon, Utah, company has claimed that its Unix software has been illegally copied into the Linux source code.
The fact that USL seems to have ended its lawsuit by making such major concessions about how its source code can be distributed also raises a deeper question for SCO, Cornett said.
www.infoworld.com /article/04/12/01/HNunixscoquestions_1.html   (1663 words)

  
 UnixWare from FOLDOC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In 1993 Novell acquired Unix Systems Laboratories from ATandT along with the Unix trademark.
In 1995 Novell sold UnixWare and the rights to the Unix operating system to SCO at a time when UnixWare was gainnig popularity.
It was later the first 64-bit operating system on the Intel platform, and, in 1999, is the world's fastest-growing commercial operating system.
www.instantweb.com /foldoc/foldoc.cgi?UnixWare   (124 words)

  
 UNIX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The UNIX Support Group (USG) at Bell Labs took 6th Edition UNIX and made production releases for the entire laboratory, in parallel with Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson and the rest of the folks who wrote UNIX originally.
That's when they decided that UNIX would be the ideal vehicle to try and sell the 3B hardware into the general computing market.
In my opinion, the "free" UNIX efforts are the salvation of UNIX, because they are operating much like the old U.C. Berkeley Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG); that is, they are evolving the system, picking carefully what things to include in their distributions, and what to exclude.
www.clock.org /~fair/computers/unix.html   (329 words)

  
 The Trademark Blog: SCO Files For UNIX SYSTEMS LABORATORIES
SCO, scourge of the LINUX world, has filed a trademark application for UNIX SYSTEMS LABORATORIES, which had been a registered mark belonging to, oddly enough, Unix System Laboratories.
As far as I can tell, the registration went from USL to Novell to X/Open, which let the thing lapse in 2000.
The folks at Slashdot and GrokLaw are upset by this filing but it appears that SCO had Novell assign it a registration for UNIXWARE, and that registration isl valid.
www.schwimmerlegal.com /2004/07/sco_files_for_u.html   (147 words)

  
 Unix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
) Novell developed its own version, UnixWare, merging its NetWare with UNIX System V Release 4.
Lions, John: Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition with Source Code, Peer-to-Peer Communications, 1996; ISBN 1-57398-013-7
Unix History with Some Emphasis on Scripting Softpanorama Unix history page
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unix   (5391 words)

  
 Verilog
Once the files (cla.v, cla_stim.v, cla.cfg) are created the Verilog simulator from cadence can be invoked from the command line.
Copyright (c) 1995 UNIX Systems Laboratories, Inc. Reproduced with Permission.
The gui in verilog-XL allows you to see the the selected nodes of your system.
www-unix.ecs.umass.edu /~jjang/node4.html   (355 words)

  
 The UNIX System, UNIX System
You are here: The UNIX System Home Page
Backgrounder: The UNIX® System and SCO/IBM legal action
Visit our online store for items related to the UNIX® system.
www.unix-systems.org   (55 words)

  
 The UNIX Forums - User Access Problem: Via Telnet or even Console   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Just took over a UNIX Server from someone who left our company.
A sign of this is if the system takes a long time or hangs to bring you to the console login screen after booting init or hangs after you try login in w/ your user/pass.
You should take a look at the syslog messages, history commands, and importantly boot log.
www.unix.com /showthread.php?t=5208   (351 words)

  
 Cal Poly's HP UNIX System - "Central UNIX"
Applications on Other Systems and Their Porting Status to HP-UX
UNIX is a registered Trademark of UNIX Systems Laboratories.
As more information becomes available regarding the migration to the new system, it will be posted on these pages.
www.calpoly.edu /~ias/hp-unix-system   (185 words)

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