Multiple choice technology operating systems

what is the expansion of UNICS?

  1. UNiplexed Information and Computing System

  2. UNified Information and Computing System

  3. UNIX Information and Calculating System

  4. All the above
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Explanation

UNICS (later UNIX) originally stood for UNiplexed Information and Computing System, a play on Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service). It was not 'UNified', nor is 'UNIX Information and Calculating System' the historically accurate expansion.

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