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What is the difference between unix and windows operating systems?

  
Total Answers and Comments: 33 Last Update: April 16, 2009     Asked by: meera 
  
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Unix gives multiuser environment and more secure all the ms packages are inbuild in unix we havenote to load

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October 24, 2005 01:24:10   #1  
Balvinder singh Khosla        

RE: what is the difference between unix and windows op...
unix supports multithreading where as windows does not support multithreading
 
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November 09, 2005 13:08:05   #2  
Shankarthebest Member Since: November 2005   Contribution: 3    

RE: what is the difference between unix and windows op...
Balvinder singh Khosla Wrote:unix supports multithreading where as windows does not support multithreading
Hi singh But I need the complete information regarding multithreading concept. I am little bit confused regarding this. Please help me.Shankar.

 
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November 10, 2005 23:42:45   #3  
renu        

RE: what is the difference between unix and windows op...
unix is more secure. and it is multiuser. unix is open system.
 
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November 14, 2005 01:37:35   #4  
pooja gupta Member Since: September 2005   Contribution: 1    

RE: what is the difference between unix and windows op...
Unix gives multiuser environment and more secure all the ms packages are inbuild in unix we havenote to load
 
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December 25, 2005 15:53:58   #5  
sunny        

RE: what is the difference between unix and windows op...

As a operating systems junkie i don't see much difference in the both the OS. Both OSes provide all the functionality with respect to -

security (ACLs being absent in Windows that one difference)

Multiuser/Multitasking and Multithreading

Robust memory management in both

Device management

Process management

and so on. (Pretty much all the OS feature which one studies in OS 101)

The only difference i can think of with respect to enterprise OS capability of unix and windows i have seen Windows run only on Intel processors and power PCs to some extent. But Unix and its new buddy linux can run on practically all the zillion hardware platform making it the most proliferated OS ever.

Long live UNIX...


 
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January 01, 2006 10:32:19   #6  
Farhan Anwar        

RE: what is the difference between unix and windows op...
Unix is lot more flexible and provides more than one ways to do the same thing. In windows its the M$ way or the highway. Unix and its variants run on multitude of hardware ranging from MainFrames to handhelds. Windows has a large user-base and has control over desktop and home PCs due to its good looking easy to use interface which hides everything behind its good looking face while the server market is still under Unix / Linux control as it offers more clearer view of internal details of whats actually going through the system.Windows offers integration (everything in one place) but this adds extra complexity Unix follows the keep it small keep it simple terminology. You dont have to learn a lot of options or click zillions of menus and buttons to configure a server in linux or unix just read the configuration options defined in a simple to use configuration text file configure it your way and its up and running.We can say Unix is more secure IF you know how to secure it.Farhan AnwarNetwork and Systems AdministratorThe Aga Khan UniversityKarachi Pakistan
 
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January 11, 2006 08:12:54   #7  
Naveen Rao Member Since: January 2006   Contribution: 2    

RE: what is the difference between unix and windows op...
Unix is text based...Windows is GUI based.Unix is not event driven....Windows is event drivenAnd for God sake both are multithreaded.
 
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January 16, 2006 12:08:04   #8  
anjani        

RE: what is the difference between unix and windows op...

unix is an operating system which supports multithreading

the question u got is what is an threading - threading is nothing but like a process but it is more faster than a process

the threads are more efficient than the process because it share memory instead of systemcall

here u may got a doubt that what is a system call

a system call is invoked as a mediator between a process and operating system

threading flows in a sequential process

in threading wehave single threading and multiple threading

the best example i can give u is as we know that in unix many users share memory but they may not know that they are sharing.

here if a user have multi threading (that is he is using the unix)he need to complete a task i e.a sread sheet consist of different caluclations

if one row is changed entire complete spread sheet should be changed

so here for every task one thread is alloted so the task is completed more faster than a systemcall

by anjanikumar M.C.A student

HOLYMOTHER P.G.COLLEGE

BALAPUR HYDERABAD-58


 
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January 16, 2006 12:17:36   #9  
ANJANI        

RE: what is the difference between unix and windows op...

unix is a multi threading and multi tasking

but where as a microsoft os is not a multitasking

in unix we have multi tasking that sharing memory among different

users but they will not know that they are sharing memory because of using different types of scheduling algorithms

1)FIFO(first in first out) Algorithm

2)round robin etc..... and so on

unix is an operating system which supports multithreading

the question u got is what is an threading - threading is nothing but like a process but it is more faster than a process

the threads are more efficient than the process because it share memory instead of systemcall

here u may got a doubt that what is a system call

a system call is invoked as a mediator between a process and operating system

threading flows in a sequential process

in threading wehave single threading and multiple threading

the best example i can give u is as we know that in unix many users share memory but they may not know that they are sharing.

here if a user have multi threading (that is he is using the unix)he need to complete a task i e.a sread sheet consist of different caluclations

if one row is changed entire complete spread sheet should be changed

so here for every task one thread is alloted so the task is completed more faster than a systemcall

anjanikumar

holymother pg college

balapur

hyderabad


 
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January 17, 2006 09:05:16   #10  
kundan singh        

RE: what is the difference between unix and windows op...

These both os are multihtread os not multprocessing.

Multiprocessing is not possible on single processor system.It's only possible on multcore or multiprocessor system where more then two process can be scheduled simulteniously .So system having one processor can not do multiprocessing it is only psedo-multiporcessing.

Winodow uses Priority based preemptive scheduling while Unix uses Round robin preemtive scheduling.

In windows process or thread which has higer priority will take over but this will be the case in Unix.They all will be in Q regardless of their priority.

Window is component based syste.TCP/IP and File system are the component of the system where Unix is integrated system.


 
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