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How it started (MULTICS, C - 1970's)

How it grew (BSD, AT&T, SCO, Sun, and others)

Standardization efforts (UI, OSF)

Recent history

  1. SVR4.2
  2. Novell Purchasing USL
  3. COSE
  4. Novell turns UNIX "branding" over to X/Open Consortium (October, 1993)

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