The UNIX time-sharing system
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- DOI 10.1145/357980.358014
- OpenAlex ID W2105986919
- Type Article
- Language EN
- Published 01 Jan 1983
- Volume 26 (1)
- Pages 84–89
- Source Communications of the ACM
- Publisher Association for Computing Machinery
- FWCI 235.67
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The UNIX time-sharing system
Article 1983 EN
UNIX is a general-purpose, multi-user, interactive operating system for the Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-11/40 and 11/45 computers. It offers a number of features seldom found even in a larger operating systems, including: (1) a hierarchical file system incorporating demountable volumes; (2) compatible file, device, and inter-process I/O; (3) the ability to initiate asynchronous processes; (4…
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