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    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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  • Research Unix are early versions of the Unix operating system for DEC PDP-7, PDP-11, VAX and Interdata 7/32 and 8/32 computers, developed in the Bell...
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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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    The Bourne shell, sh, was a new Unix shell by Stephen Bourne at Bell Labs. Distributed as the shell for UNIX Version 7 in 1979, it introduced the rest...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    Each version of the UNIX Time-Sharing System evolved from the version before, with version one evolving from the prototypal Unix. Not all variants and...
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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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  • 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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    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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    tr is a command in Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and Unix-like operating systems. It is an abbreviation of translate or transliterate, indicating its operation...
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    directories in UNIX/Linux?". unix.stackexchange.com. Retrieved 7 August 2015. ln – Shell and Utilities Reference, The Single UNIX Specification, Version 4 from...
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    Current Unix time 1727389500 (purge page cache to update) 2024-09-26T22:25:00+00:00 Unix time is a date and time representation widely used in computing...
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    common uses of cat. cat was part of the early versions of Unix, e.g., Version 1, and replaced pr, a PDP-7 and Multics utility for copying a single file...
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    (1987): When AT&T released Version 7, it began to realize that UNIX was a valuable commercial product, so it issued Version 7 with a license that prohibited...
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    wc (short for word count) is a command in Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and Unix-like operating systems. The program reads either standard input or a list of...
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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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    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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  • component Subsystem for UNIX-based Applications (SUA). In Windows Server 2008 and high-end versions of both Windows Vista and Windows 7 (Enterprise and Ultimate)...
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    ("pipes" in common Unix verbiage). The pipeline concept was invented by Douglas McIlroy and first described in the man pages of Version 3 Unix. McIlroy noticed...
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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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    Man page (redirect from Man (Unix))
    manual page) is a form of software documentation usually found on a Unix or Unix-like operating system. Topics covered include computer programs (including...
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  • UniFLEX (category Unix variants)
    compatibility with Unix Version 7, i.e., a number of Unix tools and applications could be ported to UniFLEX - if size allowed: Unix on a PDP-11 limited...
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  • Xenix (category Lightweight Unix-like systems)
    Xenix is a discontinued version of the Unix operating system for various microcomputer platforms, licensed by Microsoft from AT&T Corporation in the late...
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  • 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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    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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