MCQ IN COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

UNIX

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What year was the Unix operating system born?
A
in the early 90s
B
in the early 60’s
C
in the early 70s
D
in the early 80s
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The history of UNIX starts back in 1969, when Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and others started working on the “little-used PDP-7 in a corner” at Bell Labs and what was to become UNIX. It had a assembler for a PDP-11/20, file system, fork(), roff and ed.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the 1960s and 1970s Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson invented Unix, arguably the world’s most important computer operating system.

Detailed explanation-3: -Unix–trademarked as UNIX–is a multiuser, multitasking operating system (OS) designed for flexibility and adaptability. Originally developed in the 1970s, Unix was one of the first OSes to be written in the C programming language.

Detailed explanation-4: -The history of Unix dates back to the mid-1960s, when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, AT&T Bell Labs, and General Electric were jointly developing an experimental time-sharing operating system called Multics for the GE-645 mainframe.

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