Talk:UNIX System III

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dates - time frame

needs soem time information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.17.212.38 (talk) 11:36, 19 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Definitely agree.

The UNIX User's Manual, Release 3.0 copy I have (https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_attunixSysalRelease3Jun80_33886798) is dated June 1980, the dump I have dates src/cmd/tail.c at 1980-04-12, and 4.0BSD usr/src/cmd/tail.c, dated 1980-10-06, is clearly derived from it (and not from other tail.cs); admittedly it could also go the other way around (V7 -> 4.0BSD -> SysIII) but i doubt it.

The current infobox says "Initial release 1982; 42 years ago" and cites a some sorry-ass unsourced unix.org PDF (https://unix.org/Posters/download/unix_posterA3_Screen.pdf), which says

1980 Xenix Microsoft introduces Xenix. 32V and 4BSD introduced.
1982 System III AT&T’s UNIX System Group (USG) release System III, the first public release outside Bell Laboratories. SunOS 1.0 ships. HP-UX introduced. Ultrix-11 introduced.

My SunOS 1.1 tape has copyright dates from 1983 and 1984 and indeed SunOS says 1983 for 1.0 and 1984 for 1.1. So this is blatantly wrong.

Conversely, my SysIII dump has copyright dates from 1979 and 1980 and no later ones. Curious!

This PDF looks like Open Group propaganda only roughly based on reality. Nabijaczleweli (talk) 00:19, 12 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]