UNIX

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To access it, I had to call up a text-based mail client on Unix, using a series of line commands.

From New York Times • May 30, 2023

According to Wired’s interview with those around at the inception of Unix, this 1/1/1970 date, known as the Unix “epoch,” was arbitrarily chosen for convenience.

From Slate • Oct. 21, 2019

Ken Thompson, the co-creator of the Unix computer operating system, received the Association for Computing Machinery’s prestigious Turing Award in 1984.

From Salon • Nov. 25, 2018

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

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