What's UNIX? isn't MAC OS X from the macintosh company?

what's UNIX? isn't MAC OS X from the macintosh company?

What's UNIX? isn't MAC OS X from the macintosh company?
Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®) is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT%26amp;T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. Today's Unix systems are split into various branches, developed over time by AT%26amp;T as well as various commercial vendors and non-profit organizations.





As of 2007, the owner of the trademark UNIX® is The Open Group, an industry standards consortium. Only systems fully compliant with and certified to the Single UNIX Specification qualify as "UNIX®" (others are called "Unix system-like" or "Unix-like").





During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Unix's influence in academic circles led to large-scale adoption of Unix (particularly of the BSD variant, originating from the University of California, Berkeley) by commercial startups, the most notable of which is Sun Microsystems. Today, in addition to certified Unix systems, Unix-like operating systems such as Linux and BSD derivatives are commonly encountered.





Sometimes, "traditional Unix" may be used to describe a Unix or an operating system that has the characteristics of either Version 7 Unix or UNIX System V.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix





What is UNIX ®?


http://www.unix.org/what_is_unix.html





Welcome to UNIX.COM


http://www.unix.com/


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Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard", is an Open Brand UNIX 03 registered product. Mac OS X v10.5 "Leopard" is also the first BSD-based OS to receive the UNIX 03 certification.





Mac OS X (IPA: /mæk.oʊ.ɛs.tɛn/) is a line of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc., the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently shipping Macintosh computers. Mac OS X is the successor to the original Mac OS, which had been Apple's primary operating system (OS) since 1984. Unlike its predecessors, Mac OS X is a Unix OS[1] built on technology that had been developed at NeXT through the second half of the 1980s until Apple purchased the company in early 1997.





The first version released was Mac OS X Server 1.0 in 1999, and a desktop-oriented version, Mac OS X v10.0 followed in March 2001. Since then, four more distinct "end-user" and "server" versions have been released, most recently Mac OS X v10.4 in April 2005. The next version of Mac OS X, v10.5 "Leopard", is expected to be released in October 2007. Releases of Mac OS X are named after big cats, for example Mac OS X v10.4 is usually referred to by Apple and users as "Tiger".





The server edition, Mac OS X Server, is architecturally very similar to its desktop counterpart but usually runs on Apple's line of Macintosh server hardware. It includes workgroup management and administration software tools that provide simplified access to key network services, including a mail transfer agent, a Samba server, an LDAP server, a domain name server, and others.





Apple also produces customized versions of OS X for use on three of its consumer devices, the Apple TV[2],the iPhone and the iPod touch. The modified OS only contains what is needed for that particular device (un-needed drivers and components are removed).[3]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X
Reply:first things first,





UNIX is an operating system with a lot of features that other os lacks.





it also acted as a base for a lot of other O.S., which together are called NIX family.





MacOS is from macintosh, and is a os for their mac systems.





i would like to differ from david, mac and unix are two seprate things mac can never be unix and unix can never be mac.
Reply:UNIX is a family of operating systems.





The current version of Mac OS X is a UNIX-like operating system (as is Linux).





The next version of Mac OS X (Leopard) will be a UNIX (certified by the owners of the trademark and conforming to the specifications that UNIX operating systems must conform to).