A cikin 1960s da 1970s Dennis Ritchie da Ken Thompson sun kirkiro Unix, wanda za a iya cewa shine tsarin sarrafa kwamfuta mafi mahimmanci a duniya.
Ta yaya aka haifi Unix?
Tarihin UNIX ya fara a cikin 1969, lokacin da Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie da sauransu sun fara aiki a kan "PDP-7 da ba a yi amfani da su ba a kusurwa" a Bell Labs da abin da zai zama UNIX. Yana da mai tarawa don PDP-11/20, tsarin fayil, cokali mai yatsa (), roff da ed. An yi amfani da shi don sarrafa rubutu na takaddun haƙƙin mallaka.
Unix ya mutu?
"Babu wanda ke sayar da Unix kuma, wani irin mataccen ajali ne. Daniel Bowers, darektan bincike kan ababen more rayuwa da ayyuka a Gartner ya ce "Kasuwar UNIX tana cikin raguwar da ba za a iya mantawa da ita ba." "1 kawai a cikin sabobin 85 da aka tura a wannan shekara suna amfani da Solaris, HP-UX, ko AIX.
Ana amfani da Unix a yau?
Tsarukan aiki na Unix na mallakar mallaka (da bambance-bambancen kamar Unix) suna gudana akan nau'ikan gine-ginen dijital iri-iri, kuma galibi ana amfani dasu akan Sabar gidan yanar gizo, manyan firam, da manyan kwamfutoci. A cikin 'yan shekarun nan, wayowin komai da ruwan, Allunan, da kwamfutoci na sirri masu gudanar da juzu'i ko bambance-bambancen Unix sun ƙara shahara.
Shin Linux kwafin Unix ne?
Linux ba Unix bane, amma tsarin aiki ne irin na Unix. An samo tsarin Linux daga Unix kuma ci gaba ne na tushen tsarin Unix. Rarraba Linux sune mafi shahara kuma mafi kyawun misali na abubuwan Unix kai tsaye. BSD (Rarraba Software na Berkley) kuma misali ne na tushen Unix.
Shin har yanzu ana amfani da Unix 2020?
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Ta yaya Unix ya sami suna?
Ritchie ta ce Brian Kernighan ya ba da shawarar sunan Unix, pun akan sunan Multics, daga baya a cikin 1970. A shekara ta 1971 ƙungiyar ta aika da Unix zuwa sabuwar PDP-11 kwamfuta, haɓaka mai yawa daga PDP-7, da kuma sassa da yawa a Bell Labs, ciki har da sashin patent, sun fara amfani da tsarin don aikin yau da kullum.