Unix Eighth Edition

Unix V8
File:Eigth edition unix v8.jpg (none yet)
Type:	Multitasking, multiuser
Creator:	Bell Labs
Architecture:	VAX
This Version:	v8
Date Released:	1985

A version of 8th Edition Unix was recently released by Alcatel-Lucent and is available here for download. It is not a complete distribution tape, just a tar file of a running system, made by Dan Cross.

Actually, "released" is too strong a word. They just signed a letter saying that they won't sue for the release of v8-v10 Unix. The letter can be read here (PDF).

Notable features

Unix v8 includes the stream interface (in /usr/include/sys/stream.h), as opposed to the socket interface, for doing network programming.

Also included are PDP-11 cross-compilers and associated tools (assembler, linker, etc) as /usr/bin/{11cc,11as,...}

Getting it to run on SimH

Not tested yet, but here are some instructions...

Games

The following games are included in the v8 distribution mentioned above:

arithmetic
atc
back
banner
bcd
bigp
canfield
cbrogue
festoon
fish
fortune
hack
hangman
hanoi
mille
ogre
ppt
quiz
rogomatic
rogue
rogue52
rogue53
sail
say
scapegoat
snake
sread
thanks
tictactoe
tso
worm
zork