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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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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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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(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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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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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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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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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 topic of: Commands List of Unix commands talk (Unix) wall (Unix) write(1) – Version 7 Unix Programmer's Manual Unix Programmer's Manual (PDF) (1st ed...
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Bourne shell (category Unix shells)
for computer operating systems. It first appeared on Version 7 Unix, as its default shell. Unix-like systems continue to have /bin/sh—which will be the...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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part of the GNU Binutils package. The etymology is that in the old Version 7 Unix, nm's manpage used the term name list instead of symbol table. /* *...
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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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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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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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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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files as a single archive file. Originally developed for Unix, it is widely available on Unix-based systems, and similar commands are available on other...
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interactive command interpreter and command programming language developed for UNIX-like operating systems. Created in 1989 by Brian Fox for the GNU Project...
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A Commentary on the Sixth Edition UNIX Operating System by John Lions (later reissued as Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition and commonly referred to...
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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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Sed (redirect from Ssed (Unix))
"stream editing" include AWK and Perl. First appearing in Version 7 Unix, sed is one of the early Unix commands built for command line processing of data files...
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