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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Version 7</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../V.html" title="V"/><link rel="previous" href="verbiage.html" title="verbiage"/><link rel="next" href="vgrep.html" title="vgrep"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Version 7</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="verbiage.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">V</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="vgrep.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Version-7"/><dt xmlns="" id="Version-7"><b>Version 7</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/vee´ se´vn/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The first widely distributed version of <a href="../U/Unix.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix</i></a>,
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released unsupported by Bell Labs in 1978. The term is used adjectivally
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to describe Unix features and programs that date from that release, and are
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thus guaranteed to be present and portable in all Unix versions (this was
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the standard gauge of portability before the POSIX and IEEE 1003
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standards). Note that this usage does <span class="emphasis"><em>not</em></span> derive from
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the release being the “<span class="quote">seventh version of
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<a href="../U/Unix.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix</i></a></span>”; research <a href="../U/Unix.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix</i></a>
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at Bell Labs has traditionally been numbered according to the edition of
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the associated documentation. Indeed, only the widely-distributed Sixth
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and Seventh Editions are widely known as V[67]; the OS that might today be
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known as ‘V10’ is instead known in full as “<span class="quote">Tenth Edition
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Research Unix</span>” or just “<span class="quote">Tenth Edition</span>” for short. For
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this reason, “<span class="quote">V7</span>” is often read by cognoscenti as
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“<span class="quote">Seventh Edition</span>”. See <a href="../B/BSD.html"><i class="glossterm">BSD</i></a>,
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<a href="../U/Unix.html"><i class="glossterm">Unix</i></a>. Some old-timers impatient with
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commercialization and kernel bloat still maintain that V7 was the Last True
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Unix.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="verbiage.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../V.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="vgrep.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">verbiage </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> vgrep</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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