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Mastering Microsoft Windows, Novell NetWare and UNIX pp 243–263Cite as

UNIX

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UNIX is an extremely popular operating system and dominates in the high-powered, multitasking workstation market. It is relatively simple to use and to administer, and also has a high degree of security. UNIX computers use TCP/IP communications to mount disk resources from one machine onto another. UNIX’s main characteristics are:

  • Multi-user.

  • Pre-emptive multitasking.

  • Multiprocessing.

  • Multithreaded applications.

  • Memory management with paging (organising programs so that the program is loading into pages of memory) and swapping (which involves swapping the con-tents of memory to disk storage).

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  1. School of Computing, Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland

    William J. Buchanan BSc (Hons.), CEng, PhD (Senior Lecturer)

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Buchanan, W.J. (1999). UNIX. In: Mastering Microsoft Windows, Novell NetWare and UNIX. Macmillan Master Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14968-1_13

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14968-1_13

  • Publisher Name: Palgrave, London

  • Print ISBN: 978-0-333-74805-3

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