MCQ IN COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

UNIX

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who introduced UNIX operating system
A
Dennis Ritchie
B
Ken Thompson
C
Brian kernighan
D
Both a and b
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson’s creation of the UNIX operating system and the C programming language were pivotal developments in the progress of computer science. Today, 50 years after its beginnings, UNIX and UNIX-like systems continue to run machinery from supercomputers to smartphones.

Detailed explanation-3: -Detailed Solution. UNIX is a computer operating system developed in the 1960s at the Bell Labs research centre and it was written in C Language. Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna at Bell Labs were the developers of the operating system.

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