Question
2005, 十月 4 - 23:19 — tomy
Choose a correct answer
A. LINUX is developed originally for home PCs, UNIX is for mainframes and supercomputers
B. LINUX is freely-distributable open source, UNIX is not
C. LINUX is multi-tasking, UNIX is not
D. LINUX is developed under the GNU General Public License, UNIX is not
The correct answer is C
source from: http://www.ouhk.edu.hk/itworld/
Really? UNIX is NOT multi-tasking?
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I don't know what they were s
I don't know what they were smoking, but UNIX is a multitasking OS. They've been doing it since the 70's. The scheduler gets run at timer tick and it picks the next "best" process to be run, for some definition of "best". Take a look at the UNIX v6 source code and Lion's commentry for more.
my 2 cents
They are for sure Smoking Crack
The essence of UNIX was getting time sharing system in the old mainframe which AT&T was using. Time Sharing was basically the solo reason why UNIX exist at the time.... what an answer ....
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