A Brief History of Unix HISTORY OF UNIX AND CAUSES FOR ITS POPULARITY Most discussions of UNIX begin with the history of UNIX without explaining why the history of UNIX is important to understanding UNIX. The remainder of this document will describe some strengths and weaknesses of UNIX and attempt to explain why UNIX is becoming popular. All of UNIX's strengths and weaknesses can be directly related to the history of its development, hence a …showed first 75 words of 1484 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1484 total…strong that the relative weak end-user interface has not slowed the adoption of UNIX. The end users are not the direct beneficiaries of the portability and the application program interface. However end-users have already seen the dramatic drop in the cost of computing when multiple vendors can provide the same operating system and software solutions. End users are currently making the choice for inexpensive and flexible computing rather than best user interface in choosing UNIX.