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Introduction to Operating Systems Lecture 6: OS examples (about process and threads) QIAN Weining wnqian@ Institute of Massive Computing East China Normal University Outline  Linux  Windows XP/2000  Java  PThreads  Solaris 08 ／3 ／31 2 Linux history  Linux is a modern, free operating system based on UNIX standards  First developed as a small but self-contained kernel in 1991 by Linus Torvalds, with the major design goal of UNIX compatibilit  Its history has been one of collaboration by many users from all around the world, corresponding almost exclusively over the Internet  It has been designed to run efficiently and reliably on common PC hardware, but also runs on a variety of other platforms  The core Linux operating system kernel is entirely original, but it can run much existing free UNIX software, resulting in an entire UNIX-compatible operating system free from proprietary code  Many, varying Linux Distributions including the kernel, applications, and management tools 08 ／3 ／31 3 Linux kernel history  Version 0.01 (May 1991) had no networking, ran only on 80386-compatible Intel processors and on PC hardware, had extremely limited device-drive support, and supported only the Minix file system  Linux 1.0 (March 1994) included these new features: − Support for UNIX’s standard TCP/IP networking protocols − BSD-compatible socket in