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Unix was rewritten in the C Programming language and not in assembly language. The migration from assembly language to the higher-level language C resulted in much more portable software, requiring only a relatively small amount of machine-dependent code to be replaced when porting Unix to other computing platforms.

Unix manages the hardware and the executing processes by the kernel. The kernel is a collection of programs written in C which directly communicate with the hardware. applications communicate to system using kernal. Hence kernal need to be changed for different hardware but user interface remains same.

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