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computers. The Bell Labs group that developed the operating system was dissatisfied with DEC, so its members refused DEC's offer to buy a VAX when the machine was announced in 1977. They had already begun a Unix port to the
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required by far the largest conversion effort of any supposedly portable program, for the simple reason that it is not portable."
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version of Unix to the VAX. They then ported the April 15, 1978 version of Unix, finding in the process that "he
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Version 7 Unix for the VAX 11/780, running in the SIMH VAX 11/780 simulator displayed on Cool Retro Term
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Performed by Tom London and John F. Reiser, porting Unix was made possible due to work done
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A Research Unix reader: annotated excerpts from the Programmer's Manual, 1971–1986
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environment. The 32V team first ported the C compiler (Johnson's
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The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System
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instead. DEC then approached a different Bell Labs group in
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of the operating system to decouple it from its "native"
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A Unix operating system for the DEC VAX-11/780 computer
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Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution
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Unix operating system port for DEC VAX architecture
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Index

Developer
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Written in
C
Unix
Seventh Edition Unix
Available in
English
VAX
Default
user interface

Command-line interface
Bourne shell
License
BSD 4-Clause License
Version 7 Unix
3BSD
UNIX System III
Unix
operating system
Bell Laboratories
port
Seventh Edition Unix
DEC
VAX

PDP-11
Interdata 8/32
Holmdel, New Jersey
between the Sixth and Seventh Editions
PDP-11

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