Re: Ken Thompson interview in IEEE Computer magazine (fwd)

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Fri, 07 May 1999 20:07:55 -0400

In message <7gvn8m$n9i@pell.pell.portland.or.us>, david parsons writes:
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| david parsons \bi/ System V is Version 8.
+--->8

Ah, no. The numbered versions were *research* versions; commercial Unix
effectively had an independent versioning namespace. And in any case, System
V was not derived from RE7 --- it split off with PWB/UNIX, a stage somewhere
between RE6 and RE7.

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