Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: 8th edition Unix(tm) Message-ID: <3533@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 17:44:23 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.3533 Posted: Thu Feb 9 17:44:23 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 17:44:23 EST References: <4297@amd70.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 21 As I've heard it, the story on the "8th edition" is as follows. The kernel is roughly 4.1BSD plus Dennis Ritchie's line disciplines. The user-level stuff is extensively worked-over, with a lot of Berkeley garbage ripped out and a lot of new stuff added. There are undoubtedly a good many other miscellaneous things like Blit support, networking software, and so forth. The 8th edition basically runs on the machines at the Research lab (the home of Unix) and nowhere else. The official word is (or at least, has been in the past) that the 8th edition will *never* be distributed. The folks at Research apparently went through immense effort and pain getting V7 out the door, and swore off software distribution forever as a result. It also seems safe to assume that the 8th edition doesn't fit well with AT&T's current view that System V is the be-all and end-all of Unixes and will be the base for all future work. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry