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Given acquisitions, the current IP ownership is more like: IBM - AIX HPE - ULTRIX, Tru64/OSF1/DIGITAL UNIX, HP-UX, IRIX Apple - A/UX, macOS Oracle - SunOS,

• pkaye 1y ago
  If HP and Sun had merged, I wonder if HP-UX would become HP-SUX.
  • hawflakes 1y ago
    It’s in the Jargon file. Your comment made me remember this bit: Hackers at HP/Apollo (the former Apollo Computers which was swallowed by HP in 1989) have been heard to complain that Mr. Packard should have pushed to have his name first, if for no other reason than the greater eloquence of the resulting acronym. https://zvon.org/comp/r/ref-Jargon_file.html#Terms~HP-SUX https://zvon.org/comp/r/ref-Jargon_file.html#Terms~HP-SUX