DG/UX

Operating system DG/UXDeveloperData GeneralWritten inCOS familyUNIX System V with additions from BSDWorking stateHistoricInitial releaseMarch 1985; 41 years ago (1985-03)Latest release5.4 Release 4.20 (MU07) / April 2001; 25 years ago (2001-04)Available inEnglishSupported platformsEclipse MV minicomputer line, AViiON workstation and server lineDefaultuser interfaceIXI X.desktop environment DG/UX is a discontinued Unix operating system developed by Data General for its Eclipse MV minicomputer line, and later the AViiON workstation and server line (both Motorola 88000 and Intel IA-32-based variants). Overview By 1985 most computer companies offered Unix as an alternative to their proprietary operating systems. DG/UX 1.00, released by Data General in March 1985, was based on UNIX System V Release 2 with additions from 4.1BSD. By 1987, DG/UX 3.10 had been released, with 4.2BSD TCP/IP networking, NFS and the X Window System included. DG/UX 4.00, in 1988, was a comprehensive re-design of the system, based on System V Release 3, and supporting symmetric multiprocessing on the Eclipse MV. The 4.00 filesystem was based on the AOS/VS II filesystem and, using the logical disk facility, could