“In the 15 years following the release of V6 (April 1976),
Berkeley was not the only place where versions and clones of UNIX
sprouted. While I doubt whether I can even enumerate all of them,
the following will give an image of the geography of the field. To
me, the most significant UNIX releases were:
- “November 1976: Interactive Systems IS/1
- “March 1978: 1BSD
- “November 1978: Cromemco CROMIX
- “November 1978: Technical Systems Consultants UniFLEX
- “December 1978: V7
- “April 1979: AT&T UNIX 32/V
- “May 1979: 2BSD…”
Groklaw: The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin, Ch. 15
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