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v6 Unix is perhaps famous because of the "[[Lions book]]". [[John Lions]] ( bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lions ) wrote up an excellent disection of the unix kernel, and taught it in his OS classes. The book became *the* guide to the unix internals, and was photocopied over & over... | v6 Unix is perhaps famous because of the "[[Lions book]]". [[John Lions]] ( bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lions ) wrote up an excellent disection of the unix kernel, and taught it in his OS classes. The book became *the* guide to the unix internals, and was photocopied over & over... | ||
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This was one of the more popular research versions to leave Bell Labs.
Platforms
These are the known platforms to run Unix v6
PDP-11
the PDP-11 was the primary platform which Unix v6 was written on. All other v6's can trace themselves back to this version.
Interdata 32b
The Interdata 32b was the first port to a 32 bit platform outside of Bell Labs.
Folk Lore
v6 Unix is perhaps famous because of the "Lions book". John Lions ( bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lions ) wrote up an excellent disection of the unix kernel, and taught it in his OS classes. The book became *the* guide to the unix internals, and was photocopied over & over...
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