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Introduction To UNIX: Karl Harrison September 2004

The document provides an introduction to the UNIX operating system. It discusses that UNIX is a multiuser, multitasking operating system that allows multiple users to use a computer simultaneously and each user to run multiple jobs. It describes the early versions of UNIX from AT&T and University of California, Berkeley and lists some current commercial versions like Solaris, AIX, and HP/UX. It also mentions freely available versions like Linux and FreeBSD and distributions of Linux.

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Introduction To UNIX: Karl Harrison September 2004

The document provides an introduction to the UNIX operating system. It discusses that UNIX is a multiuser, multitasking operating system that allows multiple users to use a computer simultaneously and each user to run multiple jobs. It describes the early versions of UNIX from AT&T and University of California, Berkeley and lists some current commercial versions like Solaris, AIX, and HP/UX. It also mentions freely available versions like Linux and FreeBSD and distributions of Linux.

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Introduction to UNIX

Karl Harrison September 2004

The UNIX Operating System


An operating system (or "OS") is a set

of programs that controls a computer It controls both the


hardware (things you can touchsuch as

keyboards, displays, and disk drives) software (application programs that you run, such as a word processor).

The UNIX Operating System


Some computers have a single-user OS,

which means only one person can use the computer at a time. They can also do only one job at a time. But if it has a multiuser, multitasking operating system like UNIX. Then these powerful OSes can let many people use the computer at the same time and let each user run several jobs at once.

Versions of UNIX
Now there are many different versions

of UNIX. At first there were two main versions:


The line of UNIX releases that started at

AT&T (the latest is System V Release 4), And from the University of California at Berkeley (the latest version is BSD 4.4).

Versions of UNIX
Now commercial versions include SunOS,

Solaris, SCO UNIX, SG IRIX, AIX, HP/UX The freely available versions include Linux and FreeBSD 5.2 (based on 4.4BSD)
Many Versions of Linux - Redhat, Fedroa, Debian,

SuSE and MandrakeSoft

Apple Mac OS X (FreeBSD 5.2)

What is different with UNIX


User Applications X Windows GUI
Commands & Shell

Services

UNIX Kernel

Hardware

UNIX GUIs -Apple OS X 10.4

UNIX GUIs -Apple OS X 10.4

UNIX GUIs -Fedora KDE

UNIX GUIs -Solaris

UNIX GUIs -SG IRIX

Remote UNIX log on

Oxford UNIX System


OUCS provides a general-purpose cluster of

computers running Debian GNU/Linux. The service is available to any University member who has a Herald account, and is accessed using Herald username and password on secure login to linux.ox.ac.uk.
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/services/linux/

UNIX Tutorials
Maui High Performance Computing Centre http://www.mhpcc.edu/training/vitecbids/UnixI ntro/UnixIntro.html Also http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/course/unix/unix.ht ml
Vi Editor http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html

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