Both platforms are ASCII platforms, but the difference is the line termination character. In Windows, there is a two character sequence to denote the end of the line (CR/LF sequence, 0D0A)
For Unix, the line termination character is the newline character (0A), to denote the end of the text line.
what are similarities and differences between linux and unix?
Since there isn't a UNIX 95 or UNIX 98 per se, I think you are referring to Windows 95 or Windows 98..
unix is a multiuser operating system but widows is a single user operating system.
Unix files can be easily transferred to windows via a network connection either by using FTP or by using Samba. Samba allows a Unix file system to be mounted/shared on a Windows system to look like a windows directory.
tHE QUESTION WAS WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETEEN unix and windows 7, but i did not get the appropriate answer.
The samba software package implements the netbios protocol which is used by Microsoft Windows Lan Manager under TCP/IP to share files. Samba is open software and available free for non-windows platforms such as linux, unix and OpenVMS. Properly configuring samba makes Unix folders appear as shared folders on a Windows system.
They are both administrator accounts and have privileges to do anything on the system.
UNIX is a command-based OS. In contrast, Windows is a menu-based OS.
No difference, really. Unix is an OS (Operating System)
Structured files contain records, unstructured files are byte-streams. (Modern OS's (Windows, UNIX) have only unstructured files.)
For Unix systems that are only talking to other Unix systems NFS (Network File System) is the most popular. If you want to share Unix files with Windows systems, then Samba is one of the most popular ways to accomplish this.
tar extension can more or less be compared to zip: a tarball (this is the name of a "tar extension'ed file") is used to group file (and eventually folders of files). Although tarballs are mostly used in Unix flavors, programs such as WinRar for Windows can extract files from them. In short, such drivers may work for both Windows and/or Unix flavors.