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Unix (Uniplexed Information and Computing System) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, developed in the 1970s at Bell Labs.
Learning to use Unix is a necessity for modern statistics. Graduate students should learn to use Unix no matter what operating system they use. Luckily, all Rice statistics graduate students have access to several servers. So why do we need Unix and servers?