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In 1991, AT&T's Unix System Laboratories developed System V release 6, which incorporated almost all of the features found in System V release 3.

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UNIX is designed to ensure device dependence to the applications running under it.

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The ____ command allows the programmer to synchronize process execution by suspending the parent until the child is finished.

The system command, split, splits a program into two copies, which are both running from the statement after the command.

The UNIX process scheduling algorithm picks the process that will run in the shortest amount of time to be run first.

The Processor Manager of a UNIX system kernel handles the allocation of the CPU, process scheduling, and the satisfaction of process requests.

By 1990, there were about two dozen versions of UNIX, among them AT&T's UNIX System V.

A pipe is the operating system's way to connect the output from one program to the input of another without the need for temporary or intermediate files.

UNIX uses a ____ to keep track of which processes are using which program code, and the memory is not released until the program code is no longer needed.

UNIX stores files as sequences of bytes and does not impose any structure on them.

There is no return from a successful ____ call.

UNIX uses the ____ page replacement algorithm.

The portability of UNIX is attributed to the fact that most of it is written in a high-level language, C++.

In UNIX, a ____ table is allocated to each active process.

When the UNIX Processor Manager is deciding which process from the READY queue will be loaded into memory to be run first, it chooses the process ____.

UNIX is a true multitasking operating system.

Each physical device in UNIX is identified by a minor device number, a major device number, and a contact address.

The following command ____ , will copy the contents of chapt1 and chapt2 into a file named sectiona.

The following command ____ will store the names of all users logged on to the system in the file called temporary.

Swapping uses a round robin policy.