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Definition: UNIX: UNIX is an operating system commonly used on Workstations, and multi-user larger systems. It is a very powerful operating system for administering many users, multi-tasking and communications and has played a major role in the development of the Internet - it is the preferred operating system for host Internet connections (World Wide Web, email servers, and specialist hardware such as routers).

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Source: Faculty-of-Education / Linux Dictionary V 0.16
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Author: Binh Nguyen linuxfilesystem(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)au
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