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Alcatel-Lucent allows distribution of Reaserch UNIX source code
2017-03-29 12:10:11 Post No. 59636137
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Alcatel-Lucent allows distribution of Reaserch UNIX source code
2017-03-29 12:10:11
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Alcatel-Lucent finally allows distribution of previously unreleased Research UNIX versions 8, 9 and 10.
UNIX-like operating systems as we know them today descended mostly from Research UNIX version 7. Versions up to 7 have been publicly available for a while now, but later versions, up to v10, were encumbered up until recently.
These files are of historical interest and are available on the UNIX Heritage Society website.
UNIXv10:
http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Dan_Cross_v10/
UNIXv8
http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Dan_Cross_v8/
TUHS announcement mail:
http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2017-March/009354.html
Older versions 5, 6 and 7 can be run inside a PDP-11 emulator from simh:
http://simh.trailing-edge.com/
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but what if someone steals the code?
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>>59636137
FUCK YES
FINALLY
I never thought I'd see the day
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Still non-free, I think they're open source though
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thank you based nokia
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>>59636902
>implying information can be stolen
>>59637113
It's neither free nor open source due to the non-commercial clause. It doesn't need to be. This antique software of purely historical and educational interest.
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There are also ports of v6 and v7 for x86
https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6.html
http://www.nordier.com/v7x86/
Perhaps a bit easier to run in VMs and you can even run them on bare metal
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>>59637548
xv6 isn't really a port. It's a educational clone of unixv6, written in ANSI C instead of v6's proto-C.
Didn't know about the other one, though. Thanks, I'll take a look at it.
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What's the point of research UNIX when they've already been supplanted by BSD and Linux?
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>>59639933
>point
You know it isn't actively developed, right? Read the damn thread.
As for being 'supplanted', that's not strictly a good thing. BSD, and GNU even more so, added a lot of bloat to UNIX, thus taking away a part of its excellence. Reading the source code of plain UNIX, as opposed to its clones, gives you a glimpse at the truly fantastic design described by the UNIX Philosophy.
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