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 UNIX 

Definition

One of the oldest operating systems.

Description

UNIX (or Unix) is a multi-task operating system and multi-user whose origins of the development go up at 1969. Multics, its experimental precursor, was the fruit of a collaboration between MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a famous American university), the laboratories of AT&T Bell and General Electric. Today, UNIX remains very much used in the mediums of professional data processing and the university education, because it offers a very great stability and a level of safety raised, in particular as regards computer networks. There is a great number of operating systems of the Unix type, of which most popular to date are GNU/Linux and Mac OS X

Author

Anwar Hossain

Author Email

anwtele@yahoo.com

References

The Creation of the UNIX Operating System
Unix and Linux commands
UNIX History

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