Difference: Back in the days before Microsoft Windows dominated the PC market, operating system were controlled by commands. Prior to MS-Windows, PC users were required to learn these commands in order to perform routine tasks. During the 1980s, Microsoft DOS dominated the PC market while the early UNIX command systems were used on larger multi-processing servers. The main difference between UNIX and DOS is that DOS was originally designed for single-user systems, while UNIX was designed for systems with many users. While PC's have evolved into GUI interfaces such as Windows, UNIX systems have never evolved into GUI environments. Hence, The Oracle professional must master a bewildering number of cryptic UNIX commands in order to manage their Oracle databases, both on Windows NT and UNIX. One of the most confounding issues for the UNIX neophyte is being confronted with a complex UNIX command. The cryptic nature of UNIX is such that even the most seasoned UNIX professional may have trouble deciphering the purpose of the command. Because UNIX and MS-DOS were developed at the same time they share some common syntax, and the UNIX neophyte will be happy to find many common commands and concepts.
Similarities: Both has CLI option and both are quick.
what are similarities and differences between linux and unix?
Solaris is a Unix system.
UNIX is a command-based OS. In contrast, Windows is a menu-based OS.
IBM 360 DOSUNIXMSDOSLinuxIBM 360 DOS preceded both UNIX & MSDOS. There might have been earlier DOSes than 360.
Unix is a specification. Mac OS X is a certified implementation of Unix. This like asking "What is the difference between a turtle and a red-eared slider."
Yes, him and three other students at MIT use to hack Unix systems alot.One of those Unix Hacks ended up being MSDOS
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To put it very generically, Linux is an operating system kernel, and UNIX is a certification for operating systems. The UNIX standard evolved from the original Unix system developed at Bell Labs. After Unix System V, it ceased to be developed as a single operating system, and was instead developed by various competing companies, such as Solaris (from Sun Microsystems), AIX (from IBM), HP-UX (from Hewlett-Packard), and IRIX (from Silicon Graphics). UNIX is a specification for baseline interoperability between these systems, even though there are many major architectural differences between them. Linux has never been certified as being a version of UNIX, so it is described as being "Unix-like." A comprehensive list of differences between Linux and "UNIX" isn't possible, because there are several completely different "UNIX" systems.
The base part of the two systems are the same. Solaris is a Unix system from Oracle (Sun Microsystems) AIX is a Unix system from IBM. They also run on different hardware chipsets.
Linux is far more common these days than traditional Unix. But as any old system administrator will tell you, learn to learn, don't learn the system. There are numerous differences between the different Linux distros, differences between Linux and Unix, and differences between each of the Unices. Learning everything about each system is a daunting task, and probably near impossible. Rather than, say, learning all of the different command line switches for "ls" on each system, just know how to access a man page.
MS-DOS was not designed for networking, and doses not come with any tools to do so by default.
No difference, really. Unix is an OS (Operating System)