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From: prc@maxim.ERBE.SE (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: UNIX 9th edition ????
Message-ID: <500@maxim.ERBE.SE>
Date: 7 Feb 89 09:25:15 GMT
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In article <9606@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> In article <316@dcs.UUCP> wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul) writes:

> >and whatever happened to System IV? Can someone answer this question?
> 
> There was no UNIX System IV.

According to a footnote in Bach's book, System IV existed internally,
but evolved into System V before the commercial release.

> UNIX System III was the commercial name for USG UNIX 3.0 and UNIX System
> V was the commercial name for UNIX 5.0.  Because of the marketing hoopla
> about UNIX System V being the "standard" UNIX, further commercial
> releases retained the name "UNIX System V".  This is expected to continue.

Is USG UNIX 5.0 the same as UNIX v5? Funny, what happened to all the
IPC features, terminfo and all the other neato stuff when they went to
UNIX v6?

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