1.12. Summary

This chapter has been a short tour of the UNIX System. We've described some of the fundamental terms that we'll encounter over and over again. We've seen numerous small examples of UNIX programs to give us a feel for what the remainder of the text talks about.

The next chapter is about standardization of the UNIX System and the effect of work in this area on current systems. Standards, particularly the ISO C standard and the POSIX.1 standard, will affect the rest of the text.