UNIX

Definition: Operating system for many users and capable of carrying out many tasks at the same time. * Written in C language, therefore easily used on many different machines. * Backbone to World Wide Web. * Provided free to US universities from 1976 because of anti-trust regulations: as a consequence, it is widely used on anything from personal computers to mainframes despite its difficult structure.

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