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- Unix
- An application programmer's interface
implemented in many products, some
of which go by the collective names
of Linux & BSD. Also an abbreviation
for ``Unix-like operating system''.
Legally speaking,
it's also a trademark.
- Unix-like operating system
- An implementation of the application
programmer's interface called Unix.
- POSIX
- The official name for a standardisation
of the application programmer's
interface called Unix.
Gene Michael Stover
2002-02-14