Pronounced yoo-niks, a popular multi-user, multitasking operating system developed at Bell Labs in the early 1970s. UNIX was designed to be a small, flexible system used exclusively by programmers.
UNIX was one of the first operating systems to be written in a high-level programming language, namely C. This meant that it could be installed on virtually any computer for which a C compiler existed. This natural portability combined with its low price made it a popular choice among universities. (It was inexpensive because antitrust regulations prohibited Bell Labs from marketing it as a full-scale product.)
Bell Labs distributed the operating system in its source language form, so anyone who obtained a copy could modify and customize it for his own purposes. By the end of the 1970s, dozens of different versions of UNIX were running at various sites.
After its breakup in 1982, AT&T began to market UNIX in earnest. It also began the long and difficult process of defining a standard version of UNIX.
Due to its portability, flexibility, and power, UNIX has become a leading operating system for workstations. Historically, it has been less popular in the personal computer market.
Today, the trademarked "Unix" and the "Single UNIX Specification" interface are owned by The Open Group. An operating system that is certified by The Open Group to use the UNIX trademark conforms to the Single UNIX Specification.
According to The Open Group's Web site, "As the owner of the UNIX trademark, The Open Group has separated the UNIX trademark from any actual code stream itself, thus allowing multiple implementations. Since the introduction of the Single UNIX Specification, there has been a single, open, consensus specification that defines the requirements for a conformant UNIX system. There is also a mark, or brand, that is used to identify those products that have been certified as conforming to the Single UNIX Specification, initially UNIX 93, followed subsequently by UNIX 95, UNIX 98 and now UNIX 03. Both the specification and the UNIX trade mark are managed and held in trust for the industry by The Open Group."
2.Linux
3. Windows
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6. File Systems
Definition: Computers use particular kinds of file systems to store and organize data on media, such as a hard drive,
CDs,DVDs,and BDs in an optical drive or on a flash drive. Any place that a PC stores data is employing the use of some
type of file system. A file system can be thought of as an index or database containing the physical location of every
piece of data on a hard drive.A file system is setup on a drive during a format. See How To Format a Hard Drive for more
information.
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2. Unix Tutorials: http://www.open-of-course.org/courses/course/view.php?id=45
3. Using UNIX - A Guide For Beginners: http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~twohey/using_unix.html
4. http://blogs.sitepoint.com/unix-style-operating-systems/
5. How to: Compile Linux kernel 2.6
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6. Free E-book :http://www.freebookzone.com/goto.php?bkcls=os_unx&bkidx=26&lkidx=1
7. WELCOME TO THE WAY OF UNIX WORLD
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8. The Unix Book Shelf