PC-UX is a discontinued

NEC is a Japanese multinational information technology and electronics corporation, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. The company was known as the Nippon Electric Company, Limited, before rebranding in 1983 as NEC. It provides IT and network soluti ...

port of UNIX System III for their APC III'' Creative Computing'', Volume 11 Number 02 (February 1985)

page 62 and

PC-9801 The , commonly shortened to PC-98 or , is a lineup of Japanese 16-bit and 32-bit personal computers manufactured by NEC from 1982 to 2000. The platform established NEC's dominance in the Japanese personal computer market, and, by 1999, more th ...

personal computer. It had extensive graphics capability. PC-UX and

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could reside on the same

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. It also had file transfer utilities that allowed files between PC-UX and MS-DOS. There was the PC-UX Softcard which allowed extremely high performance, reliability and memory utilization. In 1985, the suggested retail price for PC-UX on APC III was $700. NEC's subsequent port of

UNIX System V Unix System V (pronounced: "System Five") is one of the first commercial versions of the Unix operating system. It was originally developed by AT&T and first released in 1983. Four major versions of System V were released, numbered 1, 2, 3, an ...

was called PC-UX/V.

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Discontinued operating systems NEC software Unix variants X86 operating systems {{Unix-stub

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