MCQ IN COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

SYSTEM SOFTWARE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
____ is a multitasking operating system developed in the early 1970s by scientists at Bell Laboratories.
A
Linux
B
Perl
C
NetWare
D
UNIX
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Unix (/ˈjuːnɪks/; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.

Detailed explanation-2: -UNIX. UNIX was developed at Bell Laboratories in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is a multiuser, multitasking system originally used with 16-bit minicomputers, primarily PDP-11s manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation.

Detailed explanation-3: -UNIX is a multi-user, multi-tasking operating system. Multiple users may have multiple tasks running simultaneously. This is very different from PC operating systems such as MS-DOS or MS-Windows (which allows multiple tasks to be carried out simultaneously but not multiple users).

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