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Why would Java advocates support UNIX?

I now know that UNIX was written in C language.
Software works on one machine but will not run on another machine. All these software were written in machine language. To over come these problems the developers in bell labs laboratories starting working on a solution for the software problem in 1969. They developed a new operating system called UNIX in 1971. UNIX was simple and elegant, was written in c language and was able to recycle the code. UNIX is developed around a specific piece of code which is commonly known as kernel. Kernel forms the base of unix system. The operating system was developed around this kernel and written in higher programming language C.

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Java and UNIX have one concept in common; they meet the requirements of a wide range of computing needs. While Java is truly cross-platform, in the sense that it works across a number of Operating Systems; in the case of LINUX, it can be used to meet a wide ...

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