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Unix Operating System

Abstract

This paper is a general overview of Unix operating system. It starts by presenting a brief history of the early development of Unix. It concentrates on main aspects of Unix operating system. Key concepts covered are interactive multi-user operating systems, the design objectives of Unix, file-store organization, text processing and programming, the role of C programming language with regard to portability and reliable system software, process control (signals and fork), error logging and recovery from system failures, modifiability and application.

Outline
I. Introduction of Unix
a. History of Unix
b. Interest in Unix
c. Early marketing
d. Developments
i. GUI
ii. Linux
1. Linus Torvalds
II. The Design Objectives of Unix, File-store Organization, Text Processing, and Programming.
a. Benefits of text files
b. Unix shell
c. Unix goals
III. The Role of the C Programming Language with Regard to Portability and Reliable System Software
a. Typeless language......


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Approximate Word Count: 5218
Approximate Pages: 21 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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