Terms You Should Know
The purpose of this lesson is to collect a list of terms about Unix that a beginning user should know.Each term is linked to its definition at the Free Online Dictionary of Computing (If the Web site on the terms on this page don't work; try https://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc, https://foldoc.usefulcontent.org, or https://www.foldoc.org).
- computer
- directory
- file
- file system
- ftp
- hardware
- Internet
- kernel
- login
- modem
- multitasking
- network
- operating system
- password
- pathname
- Ritchie, Dennis
- software
- shell
- telnet
- time sharing
- Thompson, Ken
- unix
- vi
Exercise: Talk about these terms
If someone stopped you in the street and demanded to know your definition of these terms, what would you say?