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The [[Sun 1]] workstations ran a port of Unix v7 that was done by [[UniSoft]].  This was prior to Bill Joy joining [[SUN]] bringing [[4.2 BSD]] with him.
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The [[Sun 1]] workstations ran a port of Unix v7 that was done by [[UniSoft]].  This was prior to Bill Joy joining [[Sun Microsystems|SUN]] bringing [[4.2 BSD]] with him.
  
 
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Revision as of 15:53, 3 March 2009


Unix V7
V7unix.png
Example V7 session
Type: Multitasking, multiuser
Creator: AT&T/Western Electric
Architecture: PDP-11, Interdata 8/32
This Version: v7
Date Released: 1979

This was the last research version to leave Bell Labs. This also proved to be quite a portable version.

Platforms

These are the known platforms to run Unix v7

PDP-11

the PDP-11 was the primary platform which Unix v7 was written on. All other v7's can trace themselves back to this version.

Interdata 8/32

The Interdata 8/32 was the first port to a 32 bit platform outside of Bell Labs.

Sun 1

The Sun 1 workstations ran a port of Unix v7 that was done by UniSoft. This was prior to Bill Joy joining SUN bringing 4.2 BSD with him.

IBM PC

The IBM PC port was done by Microsoft however they resold it to various other OEM's under the name Xenix. Eventually SCO bought the rights & the Microsoft division responsable for Xenix, along with a deal giving Microsoft a portion of all SCO sales.

A separate project aims to port V7 to the 80386 native, V7/x86.

Digital VAX

The VAX port was to the VAX-11/780 platform in the form of 32v. This port was the 'official' port by AT&T to the platform.

Modern versions

v7 has been ported to the 386, information can be found http://www.nordier.com/v7x86/index.html.