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Unit 14 - AIX Utilities, Part II (Continued)
Exercise 14 - AIX Utilities (4)
Unit 15 - Additional Shell Features
Exercise 15 - Additional Shell Features
Unit 16 - The AIX Graphical User Interface

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What This Unit Is About

This unit is an introduction to the course AIX 7 Basics.

What You Should Be Able to Do

After completing this unit, students should be able to:
• Describe the major components of an AIX system
• Describe the major topics in this course
• Explain the value of these topics when working in an AIX
environment

How You Will Check Your Progress

Accountability:
• Student activity
• Checkpoint questions

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Unit Objectives
After completing this unit, you should be able to:

Describe the major components of an AIX system

Describe the major topics in this course

Provide the value of these topics when working in an AIX

environment

Figure 1-1. Unit Objectives

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AIX Operating System

Interface to hardware
AIX Kernel
Manages processes

Process 1 User sarah

Process 2

Process 3

User fred Process 4

Figure 1-2. AIX Operating System

Notes:

The AIX Kernel

A computer consists of many hardware devices that the users of a computer system
want to use. For example, they want to print documents or they want to play a game
from a CD-ROM.
To control these hardware devices and to share them between multiple users, an
operating system must be loaded during the system startup. In the case of the AIX
operating system, there is one special program which interfaces directly to the
hardware devices: the AIX Kernel. The Kernel controls the access to the devices.
On the other hand, the users start different programs, for example, a program that prints a
document or removes a file. These programs that run in AIX processes are also
controlled by the AIX Kernel.
To say it simply: The AIX Kernel is the heart of your operating system.

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