What is the difference bwteen Unix and Linux Operating System?

Dedcribe the Unix and Linux OS and Give the difference Betweem Them

What is the difference bwteen Unix and Linux Operating System?
Unix is popular operating system, developed by AT%26amp;T in 1969, that was very important in the development of the Internet. It is a multi-processing, multi-user, family of operating systems that run on a variety of architechtures. UNIX allows more than one user to access a computer system at the same time.





A widely used Open Source Unix-like operating system. Linux was first released by its inventor Linus Torvalds in 1991. There are versions of Linux for almost every available type of computer hardware from desktop machines to IBM mainframes. The inner workings of Linux are open and available for anyone to examine and change as long as they make their changes available to the public. Because of its robustness and availability, Linux has won popularity in the Open Source community as well as among commercial application developers.
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Reply:Linus system is an OS for desktop users. such as for regular purpose.It has the same importance and use like of windows 98,Xp.





UNIX is an OS which actually handles web server system (dedicated). They are just like the Windows Server 20XX OSes by microsoft.





in technical terms, UNIX is an OS for "WORKSTATION".


in these systems, users remote login not through another computer, but through different interference devices (such as mouse, keyboard).
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http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/U...





http://www.sans.org/reading_room/whitepa...
Reply:Unix is normally for CPUs that use linear memory addressing.





Linux is a version of Unix for Intel CPUs that use segmented memory addressing.





Segmented memory addressing is used in MS-DOS and Windows system to provide backwards compatibility and versatility, but it takes more programming effort in some computer languages, as well as a knowledge of segmented memory addressing.