V6

The Sixth Edition of Unix was released by Bell Laboratories in May 1975.

It was designed to run on the PDP-11s with 18-bit addressing such as the PDP-11/40, 11/45 and 11/70. The kernel's image size was around 29 Kbytes. This edition introduced the `Portable C Library' written by Mike Lesk, which would evolve into the Standard I/O library.

The files here come from the tarballs in http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Dennis_v6/ and were supplied by Dennis Ritchie.

For more information about Sixth Edition Unix, see The Unix Time-sharing System: A Retrospective by Dennis Ritchie.

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