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UNIX is the operating system of choice for multiuser, multitasking,
networked, and high-performance computer applications. UNIX runs on virtually
anything from slow personal computers to supercomputers. The UNIX operating
system was invented in the early 1970s at Bell Laboratories and has been
actively developed since.
At Dartmouth, UNIX runs most of the machines that provide core services,
including BlitzMail, News, PUBLIC, www.dartmouth.edu, AFS fileservers,
and others.
All of the Research Computing group machines run UNIX. These include the
general access central machines, the research systems, and the Beowulf
clusters.
At Dartmouth, there are many flavors of UNIX in use. Although they differ
slightly in their command vocabulary and system administration procedures, they
all share a high degree of similarity in structure and functionality,
especially in areas of power, networking, flexibility, and multitasking.
Some of the flavors used at Dartmouth include:
- IRIX: SGI
(Silicon Graphics, Inc.)
- Solaris: Sun (Sun Microsystems)
- Linux: Freely available UNIX
- AIX: IBM (International
Business Machines)
- Mac OS X: Macintosh (Apple
Computer)
- Tru64 UNIX: HP/COMPAQ
(formerly Digital Equipment Corporation)
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