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UNIX Unbounded 5th Edition

Amir Afzal

Chapter 2
The UNIX Operating System

Copyright ©2008 by Pearson Education, Inc.


Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458
All rights reserved.

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Chapter 2
The UNIX Operating System

This chapter briefly describes the history of the UNIX operating system. It
explores UNIX development over the years, discusses the major UNIX
versions, and explains some of the system’s important features.

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2.1 A BRIEF HISTORY
• The UNIX operating system was the brainchild of Ken Thompson and Dennis
Ritchie

• Universities and colleges have played an important role in the popularity of


the UNIX operating system

• There are two major versions of the UNIX operating system


- AT&T UNIX version V
- Berkeley UNIX

Other UNIX varieties are based on one of these two versions


About 95 percent of the UNIX operating system is written in C.
A very small part of UNIX is still written in assembly language;
that part is mostly concentrated in the kernel, the part that interacts directly with the
hardware.

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2.2 Other Unix Systems
• Linux

• Solaris

• UnixWare

X Window System
X Window system, also referred to as X or X11, is not a UNIX version.
It is a graphical user interface designed to provide the bases for graphical
windowing in a way that is portable to most UNIX platforms.

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2.3: OVERVIEW OF THE UNIX OPERATING SYSTEM
The UNIX operating system is implemented in a layered-style software model

Kernel
• The UNIX kernel, also called the base operating system, is the layer that
manages all the hardware-dependent functions

Resident Modules Layer


• Provides service routines that perform user-requested service

Utility Layer
• It is the UNIX user interface, commonly referred to as the shell

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Figure 2-1: The Unix System Components

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2.4 UNIX FEATURES
• Portability

• Multiuser capability

• Multitasking capability

• Hierarchical File System

• Device-Independent Input and Output Operations

• User Interface: Shell

• Shell Script

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Utilities

• The UNIX system includes more than 100 utility programs, also called commands

• Utilities are part of the standard UNIX system and are designed to perform a variety
of functions required by the users

These utilities include the following:

• Text editing and text formatting utilities

• File manipulation utilities

• Electronic mail (e-mail) utilities

• Programmers’ tools

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System Services

The UNIX system provides a number of services that facilitate administration and
maintenance of the system.
The following are some of these services:

• System administration service

• System reconfiguration service

• File system maintenance service

• File transfer service (called UUCP for UNIX to UNIX Copy)

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