Dave Ihnat wrote:
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:56:09PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Actually, AT&T Unix was free - I don't think they were allowed to sell it.
We acquired Unix edition 5 but never got it to run
because it didn't have drivers for the computer we were using (pdp-11/23).
They couldn't sell it initially, but eventually--I believe the first
commercial release was System III, around 1982 or so, based on research
version 7--yes, they did. The non-commercial versions were "research
Unix". And commercial Unix Wasn't Cheap.
I remember toggling in the v7 boot instructions on the switches of a PDP-11, and
then it booted off tape. I never ran Sys-III on really big iron, but I did on
PCs, IBM's "PC-IX" for the XT (and later AT) was Sys-III based. I wish I could
find a copy of that now, I'd copy those lovely 5-1/4 floppies to disk images and
run them under KVM.
I bought a copy of System V Release 4 (SVR4) from Dell around 1992 or
so at the then-unbelievably-cheap price of $1100. Loaded with goodies
from GNU. And felt tickled to get a full Unix system at that price.
I still have the Dell tapes sitting here, and one old 486 system running that
o/s if I boot it again. I'd pull the data off the hard drive and scrap the
hardware if Linux would talk to SCSI controller and knew the V.4 partition
setup. :-(
The good old days.
Cheers,
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