THE UNIX ACRONYM LIST

Operating Systems

A B H L M S U X

AcronymMeaning
AIX Advanced Interactive Executive
A/UX Apple Unix
BSD Berkeley Software Distribution
HPUX Hewlett-Packard Unix
Linux from Linus (Torvalds; program author's name) and Unix
Minix miniature Unix
MULTICS multiplexed information and computing system
Sinix Siemens Unix
SYSV System V (= roman 5)
SVR4 System V release 4
Unix From UNICS, a pun on its predecessor MULTICS (see here)
XENIX Xenos Unix

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