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That was back when there was "real" UNIX around, as well as a number of clones, including Microsofts own Xenix (maybe they had offloaded that to SCO by then). So UN*X was one way to indicate that it meant UNIX-like OSes.


Turns out SCO bought Xenix in 1987, but Microsoft was just a couple of years removed from being the biggest Unix vendor around at this point.


I guess that's probably Apple now.


Or IBM?

z/OS is officially a Unix


There are an awful lot of iOS and macOS devices out there


macOS is a certified UNIX[0], but iOS isn’t.

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[0] https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/


I still think Macs outnumber IBM mainframe and POWER machines by a couple orders of magnitude.


By unit count, no question.

By revenue? Genuinely uncertain.




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