Talk:UNIX System III

dates - time frame
needs soem time information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.17.212.38 (talk) 11:36, 19 May 2009 (UTC)


 * 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)