The Past , Present, and Future of Unix
The Past, Present, and Future of UNIX
By
CIS 155 UNIX Operating System
March 4, 2012
Abstract
In the beginning, two men Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie in 1969 created an operating system that still has potential and relevance in today’s ever changing computer world, that operating system is called UNIX. I will be going over the past and present of UNIX and will also tell on how I feel about the future of UNIX. In the past, UNIX, a dominant operating system which pioneered the future of operating systems and how they are used today. Older platforms were written in assembly language which makes moving files around to different computers extremely difficult, when UNIX was created it was originally written in that same language but later changed to a high level language we all know today as C, there is only a small portion of the UNIX operating system that remain in assembly language and that is located in the kernel of the operating system. “Universities and colleges have played an important role in the popularity of the UNIX operating system. In 1975, Bell labs offered the UNIX operating system to educational institutions at minimal cost.”(Afzal, 2008)
Table of Contents Abstract …………………………………………………………………………………2 Table of Contents ……………………………………………………………………….3 Introduction ……………………………………………………………………………..4 Past of UNIX …………………………………………………………………………....5 UNIX of today ………………………………………………………………………...5 Future of UNIX …………………………………………………………………………6 Conclusion ………………………………………………………………………………7 Bibliography …………………………………………………………………………….8
Introduction
UNIX has many tools at its disposal like line editors, application program interfaces, development environments, libraries, and documentation (Anthes, 2009). This makes UNIX a very powerful system and the best part about it all is it was written on a microcomputer. UNIX is a multitasking, multi user computer operating system. When UNIX was created it was
By
CIS 155 UNIX Operating System
March 4, 2012
Abstract
In the beginning, two men Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie in 1969 created an operating system that still has potential and relevance in today’s ever changing computer world, that operating system is called UNIX. I will be going over the past and present of UNIX and will also tell on how I feel about the future of UNIX. In the past, UNIX, a dominant operating system which pioneered the future of operating systems and how they are used today. Older platforms were written in assembly language which makes moving files around to different computers extremely difficult, when UNIX was created it was originally written in that same language but later changed to a high level language we all know today as C, there is only a small portion of the UNIX operating system that remain in assembly language and that is located in the kernel of the operating system. “Universities and colleges have played an important role in the popularity of the UNIX operating system. In 1975, Bell labs offered the UNIX operating system to educational institutions at minimal cost.”(Afzal, 2008)
Table of Contents Abstract …………………………………………………………………………………2 Table of Contents ……………………………………………………………………….3 Introduction ……………………………………………………………………………..4 Past of UNIX …………………………………………………………………………....5 UNIX of today ………………………………………………………………………...5 Future of UNIX …………………………………………………………………………6 Conclusion ………………………………………………………………………………7 Bibliography …………………………………………………………………………….8
Introduction
UNIX has many tools at its disposal like line editors, application program interfaces, development environments, libraries, and documentation (Anthes, 2009). This makes UNIX a very powerful system and the best part about it all is it was written on a microcomputer. UNIX is a multitasking, multi user computer operating system. When UNIX was created it was
Bibliography: Anthes,G (2009) Unix turns 40: The past, present and future of a revolutionary OS Afzal, Amir (2008) UNIX Unbounded: A beginning Approach, Fifth Edition. Keefe, M (2009) Survey: Unix has a long and healthy future, say users http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix