A shell in Linux is the interpreter that provides a commandline interface (CLI). There are many kinds of shells.
No. They both use the same desktop paradigm, but Windows 98 integrated Internet Explorer into the desktop shell.
MS-DOS user interface,
The 'shell' is a user interface program that interfaces between a user of the system and the Operating System. It is the user interface.
The 'shell' is a user interface program that interfaces between a user of the system and the Operating System. It is the user interface.
A shell is a command interpreter. This is not limited to Unix. The programs COMMAND.COM or CMD.EXE are also shells in the DOS/Windows environments. The program EXPLORER.EXE is also a shell, though with a graphical interface.
A shell is software that provides an interface for users of an operating system which provides access to the services of a kernel.Operating system shells generally fall into one of two categories: command-line and graphical. Command-line shells provide a command-line interface (CLI) to the operating system, while graphical shells like the Windows Shell[1][2][3] provide a graphical user interface (GUI).
Explorer.From the Wiki...Windows Explorer is an application that is part of the Microsoft Windows operating system since Windows 95 that runs on top of the Windows operating system and provides a graphical user interface for accessing the file systems, though is not integral to the running of a Windows computer. It is the component of the operating system that presents the user interface on the monitor and enables the user to control the computer. It is sometimes referred to as the Windows GUI shell, or simply "Explorer".The User Interface (UI or GUI) for windows visa is called Aero, in Vista Home Premium, Business and Ultimate. This is essentially a 3-D accelerated version of Explorer. Vista Home Basic does not have Aero.
Unix is the name of both a general specification for an operating system to meet, and the first system to meet that specification. Xenix is an implementation made by Microsoft in the late 1980s that met the Unix specification.
C is a programming language. A shell is an interface.
The shell is the interface between users and operationg systems..Kernel
"ifconfig" is a command found in most *NIX operating systems (think UNIX, Linux, BSD, etc...). it's equivalent in Windows is "ipconfig". it is a command you call from the shell (not the graphical user interface) that allows you see/set IP configurations for a specific interface.