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Meaning of AEGIS

Pronunciation:  'eejis

Matching Terms:  Aegiceras, Aegiceras majus, AEgicrania, Aegilops, Aegilops triuncalis, Aegina, aegir, Aegisthus

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 Definition: 
  1. A Unix variant that was used on Apollo workstations before Apollo was bought by Hewlett Packard. AEGIS has some advantages over standard BSD or System V Unix. It includes faster file access and a richer command set; there are commands to find out which process is running on a particular node, which process is locking a particular file, etc.

  2. A CASE tool for project change management, from the GNU project.

 
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