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== How do I get this to run?! ==
 
== How do I get this to run?! ==
  
Well you'll need a disk image, and an emulator or a PDP-11... I'd recommend [[SIMH]] and you can get v5 by looking for v5root.gz ..
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Well you'll need a disk image, and an emulator or a PDP-11... I'd recommend [[SIMH]] and you can get v5 by looking for v5root.gz ..  There is also the guide [[Running Unix v5 in SIMH]].
  
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=== Games ===
  
See also:
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While limited, there is a few games on the v5 distro:
  
[[Running Unix v5 in SIMH]]
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<pre>
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bj
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chess
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cubic
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moo
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ttt
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wump
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</pre>
  
  

Revision as of 21:11, 15 November 2010

This was one of the more popular research versions to leave Bell Labs.


Unix v5
File:V5unix.png
Logging into a v65 unix system
Type: Multitasking, multiuser
Creator: AT&T/Western Electric
Architecture: PDP-11
This Version: v5
Date Released: 1973


Platforms

Thee only known platform for Unix v5 was the PDP-11, and primarly only the PDP-11/45.


Folk Lore

This version added support for pipes, and cleaned up a lot of the code in the C language.

How do I get this to run?!

Well you'll need a disk image, and an emulator or a PDP-11... I'd recommend SIMH and you can get v5 by looking for v5root.gz .. There is also the guide Running Unix v5 in SIMH.

Games

While limited, there is a few games on the v5 distro:

bj
chess
cubic
moo
ttt
wump