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Ritchie's contributions to Unix were mostly in its?

  • User interface

  • Networking

  • File system

  • Kernel

Answer

**Kernel:** The core of the operating system that manages the hardware and software resources and provides basic services such as memory management, process management, and file management. Ritchie's work on the Unix kernel, along with his colleague Ken Thompson, laid the foundation for modern operating systems and significantly influenced the development of computing.
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