When Was Unix Released?
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When did UNIX come out?

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.

How old is Unix?

Unix

Evolution of Unix and Unix-like systems
Developer Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna at Bell Labs
Initial release Development started in 1969 First manual published internally in November 1971 Announced outside Bell Labs in October 1973
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