Solaris History

Solaris is the Unix-based operating system developed by Sun Microsystems, displays that company's ability to be innovative and flexible. Solaris, one could argue, is perpetually ahead of the curve in the computer world. Sun continually adapts to the changing computer environment, trying to anticipate where the computer world is going, and what will be needed next, and develops new versions of Solaris to take that into account.Solaris was born in 1987 out of an alliance between AT&T and Sun Microsystems to combine the leading Unix versions (BSD, XENIX, and System V) into one operating system. Four years later in 1991, Sun replaced it's existing...

Linux History

In order to know the popularity of linux, we need to travel back in time. In earlier days, computers were like a big house, even like the stadiums. So there was a big problem of size and portability. Not enough, the worst thing about computers is every computer had a different operating system. Software was always customized to serve a specific purpose, and software for one given system didn't run on another system. Being able to work with one system didn't automatically mean that you could work with another. It was difficult, both for the users and the system administrators. Also those computers were quiet expensive. Technologically the world...

Unix History

Since it began to escape from AT&T's Bell Laboratories in the early 1970's, the success of the UNIX operating system has led to many different versions: recipients of the (at that time free) UNIX system code all began developing their own different versions in their own, different, ways for use and sale. Universities, research institutes, government bodies and computer companies all began using the powerful UNIX system to develop many of the technologies which today are part of a UNIX system.Computer aided design, manufacturing control systems, laboratory simulations, even the Internet itself, all began life with and because of UNIX systems....

OS/2

A family of multitasking operating systems for x86 machines from IBM. OS/2 Warp is the client version, and Warp Server is the server version. With add-ons, DOS and Windows applications can also be run under OS/2 (see Odin). The server version includes advanced features such as the journaling file system (JFS) used in IBM's AIX operating system. Like Windows, OS/2 provides a graphical user interface and a command line interface. See OS/2 Warp, Warp Server and eComStation.Although highly regarded as a robust operating system, OS/2 never became widely used. However, it has survived in the banking industry, especially in Europe, and many ATM machines...