Unixes
Trademark.
1.
a multiuser, multitasking computer operating system.
noun trademark
1.
a multi-user multitasking operating system found on many types of computer
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body (UI) A consortium including Sun, AT&T and others formed to promote an open environment based on Unix System V, including the Open Look windowing system.
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operating system, jargon A piece of code or a coding technique that depends on the protected multitasking environment with relatively low process-spawn overhead that exists on virtual-memory Unix systems. Common Unixisms include: gratuitous use of “fork”; the assumption that certain undocumented but well-known features of Unix libraries such as “stdio” are supported elsewhere; reliance on […]
- Unix man page
Unix manual page
- Unix manual page
operating system (Or “man page”) A part of Unix’s extensive on-line documentation. To read a manual page from the Unix command line, type: man [-s ] e.g. “man ftp” (the section number can usually be omitted). Pages are traditionally referred to using the notation “page(section)”, e.g. ftp(1). Under SunOS (which is fairly typical), Section 1 […]
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System V