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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: UNIX 9th edition
Message-ID: <9374@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 14 Jan 89 13:17:40 GMT
References: <19070@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <19070@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu writes:
>I've heard recently of something called  9th edition UNIX being used at
>Bell Labs.  How does this fit in UNIX family tree. I thought all UNIX
>coming out of would be Sys V, SysV.4 being the next generation.

UNIX System V is the commercial AT&T UNIX product.
9th Edition UNIX is used only internally by some of the Bell Labs
research staff, plus a small number of selected outside sites
that were considered to be likely to contribute to its development
(just a few universities so far as I know).
Many of 8th and 9th Edition UNIX's innovations eventually appeared
(usually in somewhat altered form) in the commercial product.