To me unix looks and feels very much like DEC/VAX, and DEC surely
precedes IBM !
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Depends on what "release" and corresponding name you talk about.
If you go the the roots, both OSs were born in the mid 60s:
OS/360 came out in 1964. 
MULTICS came out around 1965, which then became UNICS, then UNIX. 


Peter Hunkeler
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