arul@sdsu.edu (Arul Ananthanarayanan) (10/11/89)
I am curious as to what Version 9 Unix is like. I hear that it is run in-house at Bell Labs. Is it similar to System V, or BSD4.3? Pointers to any papers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Arul -- INTERNET: arul@sdsu.edu work: (619) 594-7207 UUCP: ....!ucsd!sdsu!arul home: (619) 583-0439
gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) (10/11/89)
In article <1989Oct10.215504.3391@sdsu.edu> arul@sdsu.edu (Arul Ananthanarayanan) writes: >I am curious as to what Version 9 Unix is like. I hear that it is run >in-house at Bell Labs. >Is it similar to System V, or BSD4.3? >Pointers to any papers would be greatly appreciated. Ninth Edition Unix evolved from the Eighth Edition, which evolved from 4BSD. Along the way, many modifications and additions occurred, among them the "streams" I/O subsystem (precursor of System V STREAMS), file system switch, network filesystem, processes as files, Blit support, and much more. Apart from the BLTJ special issue on Unix (not the BSTJ special issue!), papers can be found in many of the USENIX Conference Proceedings and in a few other journals. The Tenth Edition of the Unix documentation is being prepared now (the system itself undergoes continual evolution; the hardcopy documentation is officially updated every so often). UNIX System V Release 4 will include much of the Ninth Edition's facilities, generally in somewhat revised form.