Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ukma!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!cadre!pitt!amanue!oglvee!jr From: jr@oglvee.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: UNIX 9th edition ???? Message-ID: <462@oglvee.UUCP> Date: 27 Jan 89 19:42:07 GMT References: <19070@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <8754@alice.UUCP> Reply-To: jr@.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg) Organization: Oglevee Computer Systems, Connellsville, Pa Lines: 25 In article <8754@alice.UUCP> debra@alice.UUCP () writes: >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. [...] >The ninth edition Unix is the successor of the eight edition which was the >successor of the seventh (well, that's not 100% true, but close enough). Scuze me if this sounds rude, but it seems to me that *NOBODY* answered the poster's original question!!! I assume that anyone capable of posting to Usenet can figure out that 9 > 8. The question is -- for those of us not privy to doings inside of AT&T research organizations -- what *INTERESTING STUFF* is there in the 9th edition that wasn't in the 8th edition??? My understanding is that the 8th edition brought a boatload of innovations: e.g. STREAMS, /proc, the ancestor of the File System Switch, etc. But I've never read an explanation of what new things came along in the 9th edition. Can one of you AT&T folks *please* elucidate?? -- Jim Rosenberg pitt Oglevee Computer Systems >--!amanue!oglvee!jr 151 Oglevee Lane cgh Connellsville, PA 15425 #include