Early Unix, was Re: Ultrix for DECstations

woodelf bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca
Fri Nov 11 01:58:06 CST 2005


Brent Hilpert wrote:

>On the other hand, it would be neat, historically, to have an 'original'/early
>Bell Labs UNIX running on the period PDP model, but I suppose/gather such a
>version no longer exists (before wider release, or before all the variant
>spinoffs, or before say ~1976).
>
>What is the oldest version (year) of UNIX available or known to be still existant?
>
Source code or executable code?   Don't ask me , ask them!
http://minnie.tuhs.org/PUPS/    The 5 th edition seems to be the 
earliest complete
version.  Also the C language has changed a good bit between version #1 
and #5 too.



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