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UNIX AND LINUX
Two Powerful Systems That Are Often Misunderstood

Unix and Linux

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There are many operating systems in use today, a few examples are Windows 95/98, Windows NT, MS-DOS, UNIX and one you may not have heard of, LINUX. The focuses of this report are the operating systems UNIX and LINUX, two very interesting and powerful systems. The first is often labeled as too confusing and unfriendly, the later is relatively unknown to the novice user, but surprisingly they are very similar in design. A short history of the two operating systems may explain why they are so similar.
UNIX is a creation out of Bell Labs in the 1960’s, in a project headed by Stephen Bourne. The idea was to create an operating system whose kernel (core part) was as tiny as possible. The main driving force, the small UNIX kernel, was that the developers were doing their work on what were considered in that day to be tiny computers. The severe limitation on RAM resulted in a small kernel with all the utilities implemented as separate, stand-alone programs. Each was itself tiny, and designed to accept input from the preceding program as well as provide output to succeeding programs. This process of using output from one program as input into another is referred to as piping and is central to UNIX operating systems today (UNIX & LINUX Answers! Certified Tech Support © 1998).
LINUX is a creation of Linus

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