What is Unix?

 

• Unix is an Operating System designed for efficient, high-speed processing of large amounts of data, and to securely support large numbers of users, over local or wide-area networks and the Internet.
• Unix is especially well-known for its great stability under use.
• It has a long history of development, starting before most other operating systems in use today.
• It has true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management and TCP/IP networking.
• Unix is used today mostly on Servers or very high-powered specialist work-stations in some industries.
  Unix and Linux ® are the major Operating Systems of choice on the Internet.
• Unix in its various forms is supplied by all major Operating System Vendors except Microsoft.