Unix
/ˈjuːnɪks
/noun [mass noun] Computing, trademark
An operating system analogous to DOS and Windows, supporting multiple concurrent users: [as modifier]: software for Unix systems...
- The company takes repeated shots at Unix operating systems but has little to show for the claims.
- It's a tutorial aimed at helping Unix and Linux users get optimal performance out of their operating system.
- Still, there is big money in Unix hardware and software and plenty of developers and admins to go around.
Origin
1970s: from uni- 'one' + a respelling of -ics, on the pattern of an earlier less compact system called Multics.