Survey of Operating Systems
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ISBN: 9781260493863
Author: Holcombe, Jane
Publisher: MCGRAW-HILL HIGHER EDUCATION
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Chapter 8, Problem 10MCQ
What organization formed in 1988 to lobby for an “open” UNIX after AT&T formed a partnership with Sun Microsystems to develop a single proprietary UNIX?
- a. GNU
- b. Apache
- c. Ubuntu
- d. BASH
- e. OSF
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