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The last few years have been a wild ride in computing. UNIX was the amino acid-laden tidal pool that gave rise to modern client/server computing and the Internet itself. In the 1980s, UNIX established a reputation for providing a high-performance, production-quality networked environment on a variety of hardware platforms. When the World Wide Web appeared on the scene as the ultimate distributed client/server application in the early 1990s, UNIX was there as its ready-made platform, and a new era was born.
Today, there are a variety of Internet-centric services that you might want to “host,” either at your ...
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