What is the name of the operating system which was originally designed by scientists and engineers for use by scientists and engineers?
A
XENIX
B
UNIX
C
OS/2
D
MS DOS
E
None of the above
Correct Answer: UNIX
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.