1、毕业设计说明书英文文献及中文翻译1021040330学生姓名：学号：软件工程学院：专业：指导教师：2014年6月IntroductiontoLinux1.1History 1.1.1UNIX In order to understand the popularity of Linux, we need to travel back in time, about 30 years ago... Imagine computers as big as houses, even stadiums. While the sizes of those computers posed subs
2、tantial problems, there was one thing that made this even worse: 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 mea
3、n that you could work with another. It was difficult, both for the users and the system administrators. Computers were extremely expensive then, and sacrifices had to be made even after the original purchase just to get the users to understand how they worked. The total cost of IT was enormous.
4、 Technologically the world was not quite that advanced, so they had to live with the size for another decade. In 1969, a team of developers in the Bell Labs laboratories started working on a solution for the software problem, to address these compatibility issues. They developed a new operating s
5、ystem, which was simple and elegant written in the C programming language instead of in assembly code able to recycle code. The Bell Labs developers named their project "UNIX." The code recycling features were very important. Until then, all commercially available computer systems were writt
6、en in a code specifically developed for one system. UNIX on the other hand needed only a small piece of that special code, which is now commonly named the kernel. This kernel is the only piece of code that needs to be adapted for every specific system and forms the base of the UNIX system. The op
7、erating system and all other functions were built around this kernel and written in a higher programming language, C. This language was especially developed for creating the UNIX system. Using this new technique, it wa
