Word: unix
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...machine's software is reported to be controlled by a powerful, versatile operating system called Mach, a variation on AT&T's popular Unix system. (In addition to its other virtues, Mach is designed to allow computers that have been hooked together to share seamlessly one another's processing power.) The core of Jobs' computer is the Motorola 68030, the most advanced general- purpose microprocessor chip on the market. That device's prodigious capabilities have been further enhanced by an array of custom-made chips that are not only state of the art but also artfully laid out. Microsoft Chairman...
...year), as have equipment sales to phone companies (1986 earnings: $375 million), but many new lines of business are lagging. AT&T lost between $700 million and $1 billion this year on sales of computers and large computerized phone systems. The firm's 7300 series personal computers and its Unix computer operating system, which were introduced in 1985 just as the industry-wide computer slump was deepening, are still selling slowly. In addition, the phone- rental business has been weakened. During the past two years, as business and residential customers returned their rented AT&T phones to the company...
...future looks bright for the firm. They have written books to accompany Digital's courseware and have basically taught AT&T's salesmen, "salesmen who before were just selling telephones," how to use their minicomputer, the UNIX PC. In fact, many retail stores selling AT&T computers now use the demo the two wrote to show off the features of the UNIX...
Various kinds of software now give instructions to computers. Systems software controls the parts of a computer, including the video screen, the central processing unit and the disc drives, and makes them work together. Though sold under obscure brand names like CP/M, MS-DOS and UNIX, systems software for personal computers can be highly profitable, and last year sales totaled $500 million...
Calif, created the first popular one, CP/M, but it has been supplanted by MS-DOS, which was developed by Microsoft for the IBM Personal Computer. In addition, AT&T is promoting UNIX, a system particularly efficient at performing several different tasks at once and communicating with other computers...