Lets talk about Unix for a second. What is UNIX? UNIX is the first multitasking, multiuser OS. UNIX is getting very old now, but it is still one of the best OSes out there. Its biggest problem is that there are so many different types of UNIX. I have heard of each of the folowing: HP UNIX, IRIX, SUN OS, AIX, A/UX, NeXTSTEP, ULTRIX, OSF UNIX, SYSTEM V, LINUX, FREE BSD, BSD 386, XENIX, and many more. And they are all different in some way, sometimes big sometimes small. But, if you have used one, you have used them all.
So why do I like UNIX? Because it is a very powerful OS. It has a very rich batch language, and if that isn't good enough for you, almost every versoin comes with a C compiler! Plus, X windows is a very nice GUI in some ways, I thinks that all GUI designers should use it for a week to learn how neat and useful some of its querks are.
My current favorite UNIX is a toss up between NeXTSTEP, and IRIX. Both are pretty good, but nether are perfect. NeXTSTEP is a joy to use, and program, but there are no cool programs for it. IRIX is very nice, and as it runs on SGI computers its main strength is the software writen for it's powerful hardware. What I want: a SGI POWER CHALLENGE, running NeXTSTEP, with binary computability with IRIX! It will never happen.
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