Unix is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.
Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, principal developers of Research Unix
Photo from USENIX 1984, including Dennis Ritchie (center)
Promotional license plate by Digital Equipment Corporation, actual license plate is used by Jon Hall
HP 9000 workstation running HP-UX, a certified Unix operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
An IBM System 360/65 Operator's Panel. OS/360 was used on most IBM mainframe computers beginning in 1966, including computers used by the Apollo program.
The first server for the World Wide Web ran on NeXTSTEP, based on BSD.