Abstract
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, which they use to mount, disk resources from one machine onto another. Its main characteristics are:
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Multi-user.
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Preemptive multitasking.
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Multiprocessing.
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Multithreaded applications.
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Memory management with paging (organizing programs so that the program is loading into pages of memory) and swapping (which involves swapping the contents of memory to disk storage).
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Buchanan, B. (1999). UNIX. In: Handbook of Data Communications and Networks. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0905-6_33
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