{{Short description|Brazilian UNIX clone}} {{no footnotes|date=May 2014}} {{Infobox OS | name = SOX<!-- Name of program or distribution --> | logo = <!-- filename only (no wikilink, no Image:/File:) --> | logo caption = | logo size = | logo alt = | screenshot = <!-- filename only (no wikilink, no Image:/File:) --> | caption = | screenshot_size = | screenshot_alt = | collapsible = | version of = <!-- For articles about releases of operating systems ONLY --> | developer = Computadores e Sistemas Brasileiros S/A<!-- Name of main developer or sponsor--> | family = Unix-like<!-- "Unix-like" or "Microsoft Windows" --> | working state = Discontinued<!-- "Current", "Discontinued" (operating systems), or "No longer supported" (releases) --> | source model = <!-- "Open source", "Closed source", or "Shared source" --> | released = | discontinued = <!-- DON'T use this for articles about releases of operating systems --> | RTM date = <!-- {{Start date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|df=yes/no}} ONLY for articles about OS releases --> | GA date = <!-- {{Start date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|df=yes/no}} ONLY for articles about OS releases --> | latest release version = | latest release date = | latest preview version = | latest preview date = <!-- {{Start date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|df=yes/no}} --> | marketing target = | programmed in = | language = <!-- Supported human languages (English, French, Italian, Arabic, ...) --> | update model = <!-- APT, Windows Update, etc. --> | package manager = <!-- dpkg, rpm, Windows installer, etc. --> | supported platforms = COBRA minicomputers<!-- IA-32, x64, Itanium, ARM, etc. --> | kernel type = <!-- Hybrid, Monolithic, Microkernel, Exokernel, Nanokernel, etc. --> | userland = | ui = | license = Proprietary | preceded by = | succeeded by = | website = <!-- {{URL|www.example.org}} --> | support status = <!-- For articles about releases of operating systems ONLY --> | other articles = | prog_language = }} '''SOX''' is a discontinued UNIX clone. It was developed from scratch in Brazil, in the late 1980s, by ''Computadores e Sistemas Brasileiros S/A'' (now Cobra Tecnologia), under the leadership of Ivan da Costa Marques. Certified as UNIX-compatible by X/Open (through UniSoft) in early 1989, SOX was one of the first re-implementations of UNIX, fully independent of AT&T, that passed the X/Open verification tests, and the only one ever completed entirely outside the United States.
SOX was designed to run on COBRA's own minicomputers and was the result of the Brazilian Informatics Policy, which aimed to achieve technological independence from the United States. Despite being a technical success, SOX came too late, when COBRA had largely lost its support. SOX development stopped soon after it was certified, when the government decided to allow use of UNIX System V Release 4.0.
==See also== *COSIX *History of Unix *SISNE plus
==References== * Peter Evans (1995) Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press * Gustavo Gindre Monteiro Soares (2002) "A Politica dos Artifatos na Lei de Informática: o Caso SOX", XXV Congresso Brasileiro de Ciência de Comunicação, Salvador, Bahia. * Luis Ferreira (aka Luix). Proposta de uma Arquitetura para um Sistema Operacional de Tempo Real. 1985. Dissertação (Mestrado em Engenharia de Sistemas e Computação) - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Orientadores: Sueli Bandeira Teixeira Mendes and Firmo Freire. * Márcia de Oliveira Cardoso. SOX: Um UNIX-compatível brasileiro a serviço do discurso de autonomia tecnológica. 2013. Tese de Doutorado apresentada ao Programa de Pós-Graduação História das Ciências e das Técnicas e Epistemologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Orientador: José Carlos de Oliveira. http://sox-4s.pbworks.com/w/page/7219509/FrontPage
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