2007-05-08 05:40:55 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®) is a computer operating system- software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services. It's more advanced and is more powerful then windows.
Here are a couple of sites that may help you:
http://www.unix.org/
http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/
2007-05-08 05:50:18 · answer #1 · answered by Vintage Glamour 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In 1994 Novell (who had acquired the UNIX systems business of AT&T/USL) decided to get out of that business. Rather than sell the business as a single entity, Novell transferred the rights to the UNIX trademark and the specification (that subsequently became the Single UNIX Specification) to The Open Group (at the time X/Open Company). Subsequently, it sold the source code and the product implementation (UNIXWARE) to SCO. The Open Group also owns the trademark UNIXWARE, transferred to them from SCO more recently.
Today, the definition of UNIX takes the form of the worldwide Single UNIX Specification integrating X/Open Company's XPG4, IEEE's POSIX Standards and ISO C. Through continual evolution, the Single UNIX Specification is the defacto and dejure standard definition for the UNIX system application programming interfaces. 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.
2007-05-08 05:46:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unix is an operating system just like windows but it is much more powerful and robust with a lot of security in place
2007-05-08 05:48:03 · answer #3 · answered by kinshuk k 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unix stands for UNiplexed Information and Computing System
Originally spelled unics...
It's used mostly as a server platform... for managing large/application intensive things... due to its security features.. stability and extreme high performance.. it is used widely in enterprise environments and... its variants like linux..solaris..freeBSD etc... all derive from the original designs of it....
it has great group and user policies... many encryption/cryptography support built into it.. it has very advanced Access control lists...
has the ability to lose a proccess without affecting the rest of the system... has the ability to run virtual machines depending on the processor..
has support for very large file systems and huge memory capacities.. highly used in number crunching projects... SETI etc...
Hope it helps
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2007-05-08 07:58:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is alos used as computer operating system but entirely different form the windows, it is purely a comman based softwaer and most of this software is being used in the mail server because this not easy to hack the software system.
2007-05-08 16:38:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unix is an operating system which was created by efforts of Ken
It is famous for its attractiveness, elegance and effectiveness.
One of its versions is called Minix, used by mainly college students to do projects.(Minix was developed by Prof.Andrew .S.Tannenbaum
2007-05-08 05:51:47 · answer #6 · answered by robbie 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
a computer language that allows a person to communicate with a machine. . and have the machine perform tasks for the person. . .
2007-05-08 05:45:21 · answer #7 · answered by Rainy 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
http://www.unix.org/what_is_unix.html
2007-05-08 05:44:43 · answer #8 · answered by jok3r 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋