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Unix is an operating system developed at Bell Labs in the late 1960s, along with the family of systems derived from it.

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Unix is an operating system developed around 1969 at AT&T's Bell Labs by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and others. A multiuser, multitasking system, it became the basis for many later commercial and open-source operating systems.

Unix represents time as the number of seconds since midnight UTC on January 1, 1970, a reference point known as the Unix epoch.

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