what do you understand by 'unix is a portable os'?

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what do you understand by 'unix is a portable os'?..

Answer / shubham

the term portability refers to made once run anywhere ie as
unix os is written almost in c language n since c supported by
almost every platform..so unix is compatable to all plateforms.

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what do you understand by 'unix is a portable os'?..

Answer / linuxdemon

Unix can be easily re-written(only 10-15% needs to be
rewritten) to run in another hardware platform. C language
made the unix os portable.

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what do you understand by 'unix is a portable os'?..

Answer / p.ashwini

unix can be put on any plateform.Since unix needs only c
compiler for its execution,portability is achived.C
compiler can be used io any platform all unix commands are
executable c programs

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