Legal Opinion
Digital Equipment Corporation v. Uniq Digital Technologies, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 16, 1996No. 95-1794PublishedCited by 68 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
Between 1977 and 1986 Uniq Digital Technologies sold Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) computers equipped with Unix operating systems. The operating system mediates between application programs and the computer’s hardware. Unix, an operating system developed by Bell Laboratories at AT & T, was and is widely used for scientific and networking functions. Each central processing unit (the calculating engine of a computer) needs an operating system customized to its requirements, and Unix is adaptable. AT & T has licensed other firms to develop versions of Unix suited…
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