[TUHS] 101 fixes for unix V6?

Warren Toomey wkt at tuhs.org
Tue Nov 24 12:19:18 AEST 2015


On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 09:10:43PM -0500, Doug McIlroy wrote:
> > The phototypesetter version of Unix was V7.
> 
> I'm not sure of what's being said here. Manuals from
> the 4th edition on were phototypeaet, first on a
> CAT and later a Linotron (if I remember the name right).

Taken from http://www.darwinsys.com/history/hist.html:

The early evolution of the C language has been described elsewhere ...
It is May, 1975, and the new improved Sixth Edition is about to be released...
There follows a succession of releases of the C compiler. The PWB
1.0 release of UNIX, the first outside the labs of a non-Research
from Bell, goes out in 1977. And a special release tape known only as
``Phototypesetter Version 7'' includes a new release of troff as well
as the C compiler, assembler, loader, archiver and bits of the C library.

Cheers, Warren



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