Version 7 Unix
1979 minicomputer operating system / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the 1979 Research Unix Operating System. For the Single Unix Specification trademark, see UNIX V7.
Version 7 Unix, also called Seventh Edition Unix, Version 7 or just V7, was an important early release of the Unix operating system. V7, released in 1979, was the last Bell Laboratories release to see widespread distribution before the commercialization of Unix by AT&T Corporation in the early 1980s. V7 was originally developed for Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP-11 minicomputers and was later ported to other platforms.
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Developer | AT&T Bell Laboratories |
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Written in | C, assembly |
OS family | Unix |
Working state | Historic |
Source model | Originally proprietary software, now open source |
Initial release | 1979; 45 years ago (1979) |
Marketing target | Minicomputers |
Available in | English |
Platforms | DEC PDP-11, VAX (32v), x86 |
Kernel type | Monolithic |
Default user interface | Command-line interface (Bourne shell) |
License | Originally proprietary commercial software, now free software under a BSD-like license |
Preceded by | Version 6 Unix |
Succeeded by | Version 8 Unix |
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