Final Flashcards
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UNIX was created in the:
UNIX was created at:
1970’s
AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill , New Jersey .
Who owns Bell labs?
Nokia
The original Unix development team included:
Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and many other individuals .
Unix distinguishes itself from its predecessors as the first portable:
operating system
The Unix operating system is almost entirely written in the _________ programming language, which allows Unix to operate on numerous platforms.
C
The C programming language was also written by:
, so it should be no surprise that their Unix operating system is written in C.
Ken Thompson
And Dennis Ritchie
The AT&T UNIX operating system was originally developed to support activities within:
AT&T Bell Labs
Other organizations began developing their own Unix operating systems during:
1970’s and early 1980’s.
rise to the “Unix Wars during the late 1980s and early 1990s where multiple hardware vendors attempted to:
for Unix .
set the standard
List the 7 Unix wars vendors:
AT&T System 5 UNIX (Sys5)
University of California, Berkeley (BSD)
Microsoft (Xenix )
Sun Microsystems (SunOS / Solaris ) Hewlett-Packard (HP-UX)
IBM ( AIX)
Silicon Graphics ( IRIX)
operating system variants, which are able to run on personal computer architectures
Linux
Name 6 Linux operating system variants:
Ubuntu, Gentoo , Red Hat, Debian, CentOS, Linux Mint
Two methods to remotely acces a computer running the Unix os:
- Invoke a client communication program (e.g. PuTTY) on an Internet connected computer
- Via a dedicated “ dumb” terminal and keyboard Rarely used today
Once a connection is made with the Unix computer , you will be challenged to enter:
both a login identification (use rid) and a password
If userid /password combination is valid , you will see:
the Unix system prompt for your default Unix shell
After you initially login to your Unix account, you should:
change the password that was initially assigned to your account.
How do u change password?
Type command $passwd
enter your current password
enter your new password twice
Enter any of the three commands at the shell prompt to terminate a Unix session:
logout
exit
ctrl+d
represents the execution of a program that provides an environment which allows you to interact with the UNIX operating system .
shell session
To invoked a new shell session, simply:
enter the name of the shell to use at the current shell prompt
If you terminate the current shell session:
the previous shell resumes
If you precede the new shell with the ________ command, then all previously invoked shell sessions disappear .
exec
Ex: $exec bash
$exec /bin/bash
All OS’s implement a ____ control system, or ______________.
file
File system
Unix and most , if not all, others use a _________________________ structure .
hierarchical directory tree