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This was the last research version to leave Bell Labs.  This also proved to be quite a portable version.  Unix v7 was also one of the first operating systems to ship with a [[Fortran|Fortran 77]] compiler.
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This was the last research version to leave Bell Labs.  This also proved to be quite a portable version.  Unix v7 was also one of the first operating systems to ship with a [[FORTRAN|Fortran 77]] compiler.
  
 
== Platforms ==
 
== Platforms ==

Revision as of 18:37, 8 April 2010


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. Unix v7 was also one of the first operating systems to ship with a Fortran 77 compiler.

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.