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Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®, sometimes also written as Unix or Unix® with small caps) is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. Today’s Unix systems are split into various branches, developed over time by AT&T as well as various commercial vendors and non-profit organizations.

As of 2007, the owner of the trademark UNIX® is The Open Group, an industry standards consortium. Only systems fully compliant with and certified to the Single UNIX Specification qualify as “UNIX®” (others are called “Unix system-like” or “Unix-like”).

During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Unix’s influence in academic circles led to large-scale adoption of Unix (particularly of the BSD variant, originating from the University of California, Berkeley) by commercial startups, the most notable of which is Sun Microsystems. Today, in addition to certified Unix systems, Unix-like operating systems such as Linux and BSD are commonly encountered. Sometimes, “traditional Unix” may be used to describe a Unix or an operating system that has the characteristics of either Version 7 Unix or UNIX System V.

Overview

Unix web hosting operating systems are widely used in both servers and workstations. The Unix web hosting environment and the client-server program model were essential elements in the development of the Internet and the reshaping of computing as centered in networks rather than in individual computers.

Both Unix web hosting and the C programming language were developed by AT&T and distributed to government and academic institutions, causing both to be ported to a wider variety of machine families than any other operating system. As a result, Unix web hosting became synonymous with “open systems”.

Unix web hosting was designed to be portable, multi-tasking and multi-user in a time-sharing configuration. Unix web hosting systems are characterized by various concepts: the use of plain text for storing data; a hierarchical file system; treating devices and certain types of inter-process communication (IPC) as files; and the use of a large number of small programs that can be strung together through a command line interpreter using pipes, as opposed to using a single monolithic program that includes all of the same functionality. These concepts are known as the Unix web hosting philosophy.

Under Unix web hosting, the “operating system” consists of many of these utilities along with the master control program, the kernel. The kernel provides services to start and stop programs, handle the file system and other common “low level” tasks that most programs share, and, perhaps most importantly, schedules access to hardware to avoid conflicts if two programs try to access the same resource or device simultaneously. To mediate such access, the kernel was given special rights on the system, leading to the division between user-space and kernel-space.

The microkernel tried to reverse the growing size of kernels and return to a system in which most tasks were completed by smaller utilities. In an era when a “normal” computer consisted of a hard disk for storage and a data terminal for input and output (I/O), the Unix web hosting file model worked quite well as most I/O was “linear”. However, modern systems include networking and other new devices. Describing a graphical user interface driven by mouse control in an “event driven” fashion didn’t work well under the old model. Work on systems supporting these new devices in the 1980s led to facilities for non-blocking I/O, forms of inter-process communications other than just pipes, as well as moving functionality such as network protocols out of the kernel.

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