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  • Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system that exists in many variants. The original Unix was developed at AT&T's Bell Labs research...
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  • rm (short for remove) is a basic command on Unix and Unix-like operating systems used to remove objects such as computer files, directories and symbolic...
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  • Turing Award, together with Dennis Ritchie. He is notable for his work on the Unix operating system. You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself...
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  • Turing Award. He created the C programming language and, with Thompson, the Unix operating system, which have had pervasive and lasting influence on subsequent...
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  • developed Unix pipes, software componentry, and several Unix tools, such as spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak, and tr. This is the Unix philosophy:...
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  • appearance of a network. As a stand-alone system, Unix was pretty good. But when you networked Unix machines together, you got a network of stand-alone...
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  • polishing. Get it working before you optimize it. Ch. 1, "Basics of the Unix Philosophy: Rule of Optimization: Prototype before polishing. Get it working...
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  • AT&T's Research Unix. Research Unix is also the basis of AT&T's commercially released operating systems UNIX System III (1981) and UNIX System V (1983)...
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  • Linux is a free and open-source kernel for Unix-like operating systems. It was first developed in 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Some people have told me they...
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  • system administration: UNIX System Administration Handbook (1989, 1995, 2000), Linux Administration Handbook (2002, 2006), and UNIX and Linux System Administration...
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  • living in the Netherlands. He is best known as the author of Minix, a free Unix-like operating system for teaching purposes, and for his computer science...
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  • Emacs refers to a class of text editors, primarily for UNIX systems. Emacs editors are generally known for their large number of features, not all of which...
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  • NetBSD is a free, open-source, Unix-like operating system that was first published in 1993. NetBSD began as a fork of 386BSD v0.1, a free operating system...
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  • terminals in a shielded room, and post a guard at the door. (1984) . "The UNIX System: UNIX Operating System Security". AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Journal...
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  • FreeBSD is a free, open-source, Unix-like operating system that has been developed and maintained since 1992, when it was forked from the Berkeley Software...
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  • continuing maintenance problems. Eric S. Raymond (2003). The Art of Unix Programming: Unix and Object-Oriented Languages. Retrieved on 2014-08-06. The key...
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  • still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements. "Unix for Beginners" (1979). Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as...
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  • going to be very far-reaching. It's going to grab the rug out from under Unix. In 10 years, you'll see 99% of the hardware and software systems sold through...
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  • 1955), is a Usenet and Internet pioneer. Horton contributed to Berkeley UNIX (BSD), including the vi editor and terminfo database, created the first email...
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  • to Interviewing" Wikipedia has an article about: Joel Spolsky Personal website Joel on Software More quotes from Joel Spolsky in Unix Fortunes' Format...
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