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A multi-user operating system. Based on the earlier (1960's) operating system [Multics] ("MULTiplexed Information and Computing Service") which BellLabs felt was getting bloated, so they wrote their own system called Unix, which was "Multics without the balls" (or: "only one of whatever Multics was supposed to be a lot of").
See also:
* [http://www.webopaedia.com/TERM/U/UNIX.html]
+* [The UNIX Time-Sharing System|http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/cacm.html]
* JargonFile:UNIX
* JargonFile:Multics
* WikiPedia:UNIX
* WikiPedia:Multics
