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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: AT&T "nth Edition" vs. "Release n"
Message-ID: <15371@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 3 Mar 91 05:00:03 GMT
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In article <6798@idunno.Princeton.EDU> subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao) writes:
>I've seen people that use System V and the like refer to their Unix as
>"tenth edition" or "ninth edition", or whatever. I've always seen things as
>"System V release n", or whatever. Anyone know the difference between these
>different naming schemes ?

"Nth Edition UNIX" refers to "research UNIX", in use by the original UNIX
developers who are still at Bell Labs and a few selected outside sites.
"UNIX System V Release N" refers to a release of AT&T's commercial UNIX
system.  Release 4.0 is the latest that I know of.


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