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Showing posts with label unix. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unix. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Monday, November 10, 2014

Unix File System? Unix file structure? Blocks of Unix file system? Structure of regular file?

UNIX File System


Unix treats every thing as a file. All the utilities, applications and data are stored as a file. Even the devices and directories are also stored as a file. A Unix file system resembles an upside down tree. At the top their is root branching other directories called bin,lib, dev, usr, tmp, etc. Their is also a sub directories called UNIX which is nothing but a UNIX kernel it self.


Overview of UNIX architecture

Unix architecture

Unix OS divide into 2 parts : 

  1. Kernel
  2. Shell
Kernel:  Kernel is the heart of the Operating system.

Saturday, November 8, 2014

Unix Operating system with its basic features

About UNIX:
Operating System is the system software that act as interface between computer hardware and application software. Ex: DOS, Windows, Unix etc.
Unix was originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie etc.