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Modernizing Legacy UNIX Systems
UNIX is an operating environment that is still in use by a number of vendors. This chapter will look at the UNIX variants and the options for modernizing to Azure.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Current UNIX landscape
- Migrating Solaris
- Migrating HP-UX
- Other UNIX variants
The current UNIX landscape
The UNIX system was originally developed by Bell Labs over 40 years ago as the first Open Systems operating system. The intent of Bell Labs was to have an underlying operating system kernel and shell that was not tied to specific hardware. To accomplish this, Bell Labs created underlying operating system capabilities and provided hooks to allow specific vendors to adapt UNIX to their hardware. ...
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