Comment by spijdar

Comment by spijdar 21 hours ago

2 replies

Given acquisitions, the current IP ownership is more like:

IBM - AIX

HPE - ULTRIX, Tru64/OSF1/DIGITAL UNIX, HP-UX, IRIX

Apple - A/UX, macOS

Oracle - SunOS, Solaris

pkaye 18 hours ago

If HP and Sun had merged, I wonder if HP-UX would become HP-SUX.

  • hawflakes 15 hours ago

    It’s in the Jargon file. Your comment made me remember this bit:

    Hackers at HP/Apollo (the former Apollo Computers which was swallowed by HP in 1989) have been heard to complain that Mr. Packard should have pushed to have his name first, if for no other reason than the greater eloquence of the resulting acronym.

    https://zvon.org/comp/r/ref-Jargon_file.html#Terms~HP-SUX