[TUHS] Did System V Really Prevent 5BSD?

Charles H Sauer (he/him) via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org
Mon Dec 29 12:52:24 AEST 2025



On 12/28/2025 7:32 PM, Luther Johnson via TUHS wrote:
> If you look at the dates on the files in the TUHS Unix tree, pdp11v 
> (System V r1 for PDP-11) files are dated 10/11/1983, so I've always 
> thought that System V release 1 must have been then. For example:
> 
> https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=pdp11v/usr/src/cmd

IIRC, ISC folks started working with System V with IBM AIX folks by 
mid-year 1983, presumably because they had access before final release. 
(Initial ISC/IBM efforts were System III.)

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