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Due to its power yet elegant simplicity, many old-time Unix users remember V7 as the pinnacle of Unix development and have dubbed it "the last true Unix", an improvement over all preceding and following Unices. At the time of its release, though, its greatly extended feature set came at the expense
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had around 120. The exact number of system calls varies depending on the operating system version. More recent systems have seen incredible growth in the number of supported system calls.
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Unix versions from Bell Labs were designated by the edition of the user's manual with which they were accompanied. Released in 1979, the Seventh Edition was preceded by
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These first appeared in the Research Unix lineage in Version 7, although early versions of some of them had already been picked up by
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Sun-1's were the very first models ever produced by Sun. The earliest ran Unisoft V7 UNIX; SunOS 1.x was introduced later.
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maintained several publicly accessible historic computer systems, including a PDP-11/70 running Unix Version 7.
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This article is about the 1979 Research Unix Operating System. For the Single Unix Specification trademark, see
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of a decrease in performance compared to V6, which was to be corrected largely by the user community.
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in Version 7 was only around 50, while later Unix and Unix-like systems continued to add many more:
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system call; other processes could then open this file to get a "channel", denoted by a
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A Research Unix reader: annotated excerpts from the Programmer's Manual, 1971–1986
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sold the port as Edition VII, making it the first commercial UNIX offering.
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A feature that did not survive long was a second way (besides pipes) to do
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Version 7 of the Research UNIX System provided about 50 system calls,
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today, and can be run on modern hosts using PDP-11 emulators such as
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Screenshot of a PDP-11 booting Version 7 Unix in a simulator.
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Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, 3rd Edition.
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An Advanced 4.3 BSD Interprocess Communication Tutorial
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minicomputers and was later ported to other platforms.
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port has been developed by Nordier & Associates.
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in the early 1980s. V7 was originally developed for
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Seventh Edition Unix
UNIX V7

Unix
PDP-11
SIMH
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C
assembly
Unix
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Minicomputers
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English
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PDP-11
VAX
32v
x86
Kernel
Monolithic
Default
user interface

Command-line interface
Bourne shell
License
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commercial software

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