UniSoft Corporation is an American

software developer Software development is the process of designing and Implementation, implementing a software solution to Computer user satisfaction, satisfy a User (computing), user. The process is more encompassing than Computer programming, programming, wri ...

established in 1981, originally focused on the development of

Unix Unix (, ; trademarked as 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, a ...

ports for various computer architectures. Based in

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, it now builds standardization and conformance testing applications for the

digital television Digital television (DTV) is the transmission of television signals using Digital signal, digital encoding, in contrast to the earlier analog television technology which used analog signals. At the time of its development it was considered an ...

market.

History

UniSoft was founded on October 5, 1981, in

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. Their original business was

development, and they were soon recognized as one of the early implementers of Unix for the emerging 16-bit microcomputer market. By 1989, they had completed over 225 Unix implementations on various hardware platforms, which was estimated to have been about 65% of all such ports. UniSoft's port of

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was the first operating system for

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workstations and servers. It also developed

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's Unix variant,

A/UX A/UX is a Unix-based operating system from Apple Computer for Macintosh computers, integrated with System 7's graphical interface and application compatibility. It is Apple's first official Unix-based operating system, launched in 1988 and disc ...

, for the Apple

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. UniSoft UniPlus

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served as the basis of

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' GL2 operating system, which eventually evolved into

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. In 1991, the company moved to its current offices in

. UniSoft shifted its focus to the

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in 1997, in order to address standards compliant software in that market. It now works solely in development, testing, and broadcast tools for digital television.

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