In her ruling Thursday, the judge cited a 1994 open letter by a Microsoft manager stating the company's commitment to make its application program interfaces "universally available" for Unix computer systems.
PAGE A15 Obituaries ROBERT MORRIS, 78 He was a cryptographer who helped develop the Unix computer operating system, which controls an increasing number of the world's computers and touches almost every aspect of modern life.
Robert Morris, a cryptographer who helped develop the Unix computer operating system, which controls an increasing number of the world's computers and touches almost every aspect of modern life, died on Sunday in Lebanon, N.H.
Correction: December 24 , 2003 Wednesday Because of an editing error, an article in Business Day yesterday about a dispute between Novell Inc. and the SCO Group over ownership of the copyright to the Unix computer operating system referred incorrectly to I.B.M.'s involvement with Linux, a variant of Unix that is distributed free.
Novell Inc. has quietly registered for the copyrights on many versions of the Unix computer operating system that the SCO Group already says it owns, further muddying the water surrounding a dispute that has embroiled the Linux open source world for almost a year.
SCO, a software company based in Lindon, Utah, owns a significant amount of the intellectual property for the Unix computer operating system.
The Delta Vision restoration microscope (Applied Precision Instruments, Seattle) utilized a Unix-based computer system equipped with SoftWoRx version 2.50, acquisition software.
The most-widely used version of this simulator was written in standard Fortran-77 and executed under Unix on a Vax 11-780 computer system, a platform relatively free of limitations and well understood by many modellers.
Unable to sell servers running their proprietary IRIX operating system or compete with more general-purpose UNIX computer companies such as Digital Equipment Corp., the Hewlett-Packard Company, and Sun Microsystems, Inc. SGI began to lose money in 1997.
