Version 7 Unix, also called Seventh Edition Unix, Version 7 or just V7, was an important early release of the Unix operating system. V7, released in 1979...
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Sixth Edition Unix, also called Version 6 Unix or just V6, was the first version of the Unix operating system to see wide release outside Bell Labs. It...
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The term "Research Unix" refers to early versions of the Unix operating system for DEC PDP-7, PDP-11, VAX and Interdata 7/32 and 8/32 computers, developed...
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systems. It is a distant descendant of the original filesystem used by Version 7 Unix. A UFS volume is composed of the following parts: A few blocks at the...
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Single UNIX Specification, Version 4 (SUSv4). This SUS consists of: Base Specifications, Issue 7 Base Definitions, Issue 7 System Interfaces, Issue 7 Shell...
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Bell Labs in 1982. UNIX System III was a mix of various AT&T Unix systems: Version 7 Unix, PWB/UNIX 2.0, CB UNIX 3.0, UNIX/RT and UNIX/32V. System III supported...
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Bourne shell (category Unix shells)
computer operating systems. The Bourne shell was the default shell for Version 7 Unix. Unix-like systems continue to have /bin/sh—which will be the Bourne shell...
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designed and implemented by Ken Thompson in the first experimental version of Unix, dated 1969. As in other operating systems, the filesystem provides...
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but support for shell scripts, is apparent in the documentation from Version 7 Unix in 1979, which describes instead a facility of the Bourne shell where...
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a database of quotations. Early versions of the program appeared in Version 7 Unix in 1979. The most common version on modern systems is the BSD fortune...
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systems that comply with the Single UNIX Specification (SUS). Early versions of Unix ran on PDP-11 computers. Unix systems are characterized by a modular...
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compiler-compiler to PDP-7 assembly, creating the first high-level language running on Unix. Thompson used this tool to develop the first version of his B programming...
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UnixWare is a Unix operating system. It was originally released by Univel, a jointly owned venture of AT&T's Unix System Laboratories (USL) and Novell...
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source BSD code to be certified as fully Unix compliant. BSD systems can claim direct ancestry from Version 7 Unix. According to Open Source advocate Eric...
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Ancient UNIX is any early release of the Unix code base prior to Unix System III, particularly the Research Unix releases prior to and including Version 7 (the...
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Cron (redirect from Crontab (Unix command))
subsequent crontab entries relative to that time zone. The cron in Version 7 Unix was a system service (later called a daemon) invoked from /etc/rc when...
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The archiver, also known simply as ar, is a Unix utility that maintains groups of files as a single archive file. Today, ar is generally used only to create...
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Init (category Unix process- and task-management-related software)
In Unix-based computer operating systems, init (short for initialization) is the first process started during booting of the operating system. Init is...
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UNIX/32V is an early version of the Unix operating system from Bell Laboratories, released in June 1979. 32V was a direct port of the Seventh Edition Unix...
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Unix System V (pronounced: "System Five") is one of the first commercial versions of the Unix operating system. It was originally developed by AT&T and...
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Tar (computing) (redirect from Tar (Unix))
widespread use. The command-line utility was first introduced in the Version 7 Unix in January 1979, replacing the tp program (which in turn replaced "tap")...
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certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification. A Unix-like application is one that behaves like the corresponding Unix command or shell....
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and some other Unix systems, retrofitted symbolic links to their versions of the Version 7 Unix file system, although the original version didn't support...
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Bourne shell (sh), an early and important Unix shell written by Stephen Bourne and distributed with Version 7 Unix circa 1978, and the concept of being "born...
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List of operating systems (section Unix or Unix-like)
v4 UNIX Time-Sharing System v5 UNIX Time-Sharing System v6 MINI-UNIX PWB/UNIX USG CB Unix UNIX Time-Sharing System v7 (It is from Version 7 Unix (and...
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Thompson shell (redirect from Original Unix shell)
The Thompson shell was the first Unix shell, introduced in the first version of Unix in 1971, and was written by Ken Thompson. It was a simple command...
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Grep (redirect from Grep (Unix))
environments. Early variants included egrep and fgrep, introduced in Version 7 Unix. The "egrep" variant supports an extended regular expression syntax...
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The Programmer's Workbench (PWB/UNIX) was an early, now discontinued, version of the Unix operating system that had been created in the Bell Labs Computer...
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Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (redirect from Unix FHS)
release of Version 7 Unix (in 1979); the SunOS filesystem(7) and its successor, the Solaris filesystem(7). Hierarchical file system Unix directory structure...
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(SOSP, 1974, "The UNIX Timesharing System"), and at least seven official editions of its manuals had been published (see Version 7 Unix). In 1984, several...
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