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Differences between Mac, Windows, UNIX
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Mac is an OS by Macintosh
Win is an OS by MS
Unix is an oS developed by many multiple vendors but originally invented by AT&T Bell Labs,Murray Hills, NJ USA
MacOS (up until osX, anyhow) was single-user and (technically) did not have multitasking capabilites (some people will try to tell you that the mac has “cooperative multitasking”, but I wouldn’t even cosider that multitasking, since it requires each running program to voluntarily pause and wait for others to run).
Windows, starting with Win95 is a single-user, multasking OS. Although newer versions liek XP and 2000 support file permissions via EFS, the DO NOT allow multiple users to be logged in at once.
UNIX is 100% multi-user and multitasking, and is therefore inherently stable, secure, and confusing. Once you go UNIX, though, you’ll never go back! UNIX (in all caps) was developed by AT&T waaaay back, Unix (no caps) usually refers to a family of operating systems (including the free-but-overrated Linux) that are based on UNIX. Solaris, BSD, OSF, SCO, and Tru64 are all flavors of Unix.
Windows is not an OPEN source developed os.
However UNIX is an open source developed os.
Mac runs on Mac hardware. Windows runs on varying types of hardware, but usually Intel-based. Unix runs on varying types of hardware, e.g., Sparc, etc.
Unix was designed for use by scientists and educational institutions, etc, and is therefore less user-friendly. Windows and Mac are designed mostly for personal, home use.
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