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    Edition Unix, also called Version 6 Unix or just V6 is a version of the Unix operating system first released in May 1975 and the first version of the Unix operating...
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  • Research Unix refers to the early versions of the Unix operating system for DEC PDP-7, PDP-11, VAX and Interdata 7/32 and 8/32 computers, developed in...
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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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    file: awk 'NR < 6' filename However, neither sed nor awk were available in early versions of BSD, which were based on Version 6 Unix, and included head...
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  • Issue 6 System Interfaces, Issue 6 Shell and Utilities, Issue 6 Rationale (Informative) X/Open Curses, Issue 4, Version 2 and is at the core of the UNIX 03...
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  • Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), also known as Berkeley Unix, is a discontinued Unix operating system developed and distributed by the Computer Systems...
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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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    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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  • 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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    (AIX). The early versions of Unix—which are retrospectively referred to as "Research Unix"—ran on computers such as the PDP-11 and VAX; Unix was commonly...
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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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    Ken Thompson (category Unix people)
    his alma mater, UC Berkeley. There, he helped to install Version 6 Unix on a PDP-11/70. Unix at Berkeley would later become maintained as its own system...
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  • one of Unix's developers at AT&T. Weiner was joined by Heinz Lycklama, also a veteran of AT&T and previously the author of a Version 6 Unix port to the...
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    specified in an ioctl system call. This error originated in early UNIX. In Version 6 UNIX and earlier, I/O control was limited to serial-connected terminal...
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  • When a text file with a shebang is used as if it were an executable in a Unix-like operating system, the program loader mechanism parses the rest of the...
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    Inode pointer structure (category Unix file system technology)
    structure adopted by the inode of a file in the Version 6 Unix file system, Version 7 Unix file system, and Unix File System (UFS) to list the addresses of...
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  • V6 (disambiguation) (redirect from V-6)
    V-6 may also refer to: ITU-T V.6, a withdrawn recommendation for data signalling Version 6 Unix, a reference to the sixth edition of Research Unix from...
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  • necessary—dismisses them via setuid() with a non-zero argument as demonstrated in the Version 6 Unix source code. The kernel always runs with maximum privileges since it...
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  • Whitesmiths (category Unix history)
    the PDP-11, was released in 1978 and compiled a version of C similar to that accepted by Version 6 Unix (Dennis Ritchie's original C compiler). It was...
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    The history of Unix dates back to the mid-1960s, when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bell Labs, and General Electric were jointly developing...
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  • platform, is the first Open Brand UNIX 03 registered version of macOS. It was also the first BSD-based OS to receive UNIX 03 certification. Leopard dropped...
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    December 1983. AA-5826F-TC. The Version 6 Unix man page for the RP-11/RP03 device and driver rp(4) – Version 6 Unix Programmer's Manual - speaks of the...
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    modern Unix, Unix-like and other operating systems. This list does not cover commands for all versions of Unix and Unix-like shells nor other versions of...
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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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    1970, the Unix epoch. For example, at midnight on 1 January 2010, Unix time was 1262304000. Unix time originated as the system time of Unix operating...
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    Research Unix but had diverged considerably. Further, each vendor's version of Unix was different to some degree. For example, by the late 1980s, database...
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  • function appears in Version 2 Unix in 1972 as a library assembly language subroutine. Its interface is unlike the modern version, in that it can be pseudo-prototyped...
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  • in a lawsuit with Unix System Laboratories, the AT&T subsidiary responsible for Unix. Eventually, in the 1990s, the final versions of BSD were publicly...
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  • version appeared in Version 7, which Reeds and Peter J. Weinberger also broke. Linux distributions generally do not include a Unix compatible version...
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    the Open Software Foundation (OSF). A primary aim was to develop a version of Unix, named OSF/1, to compete with System V Release 4 from AT&T Corporation...
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