What’s the big advantage of UNIX?

Question

I know it’s popular with professionals and scientists, and of course there’s MacOS, but I don’t know why. What makes it better or more preferable than something like Windows?

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Answer 1

I remember a lot of the minicomputer users who used Unix said that it gave you something like the timesharing operating systems on mainframe computers (like the PDP-10 and IBM-360) on a, for the time, low-cost computers.