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- From: martiny@vnet.ibm.com (Martin Young)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: MAPUX source uploaded
- Date: 26 Feb 1996 10:59:04 GMT
- Organization: IBM Hursley
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- References: <4gkoco$hra@zen.hursley.ibm.com> <4gn8n0$d8v@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de>
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- In article <4gn8n0$d8v@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de>,
- feyrer@rfhs1012.fh.uni-regensburg.de says...
- >
- >Martin Young (martiny@vnet.ibm.com) wrote:
- >> Any of you who don't have the hardware to run Linux/BSD or are just plain
- >> curious, might like to know that I've uploaded the source to my port of
- >> UZI (V7 clone) to Aminet.
- >What *is* UZI (or V7)?
-
- #include <pinch_of_salt.h>
-
- V7 was the last real UNIX from Bell Labs. To paraphrase Andrew Tannenbaum,
- V7 was an improvement over all the previous versions and, some say, all the
- later ones too. It was small, simple and elegant; it had everything
- necessary.
-
- More seriously, version 6 was the one distributed cheaply to academia which
- did much to popularise UNIX. Version 7 (i.e. V7) cost more, and the source
- was more closely guarded. There have been V8, V9 and V10 UNICES but BSDs
- 2 and 4 and SysV had more or less taken over. See The Design And Implement-
- ation of 4.3BSD (the demon book, can't remember the authors. Kersac? Others
- in this group will know) for a clearer taxonomy.
-
- The good thing about V7 is that you can think about all the source at the
- same time without your head exploding.
-
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