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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Operating system developed in the late 1960s for midrange servers
A
Windows
B
MAC OS
C
UNIX
D
LINUX
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Unix operating system was developed at AT&T Bell Laboratories in the late 1960s, originally for the PDP-7, and later for the PDP-11.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1969 a team led by computer scientists Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie created the first version of UNIX on a PDP-7 minicomputer, which was chosen mainly because of Thompson’s familiarity with the system from his hobby work on it.

Detailed explanation-3: -UNIX, which was introduced in the late 1960s, is one of the oldest operating systems. There are many different versions of UNIX today. One of the most Page 8 8 recent is the extremely popular Linux. Linux was developed by Linus Torvalds in 1991, and it is designed as an open-source operating system.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Unix OS was first developed by AT&T Corporation’s Bell Laboratories in the late 1960s. It’s a portable, stable, multiuser and multitasking system that’s typically used for web servers, desktop computers and laptops. The Unix OS operates on three main parts: the kernel, the shell and programs.

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