marco@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu (09/04/87)
How do you pronounce the names:
UNIX V
UNIX V7
(I know how to pronounce the Unix part.) Please e-mail the answer.
This is an important question for me because I record computer books
for blind people. Thanks.
--David
David M. Marcovitz
Center for Supercomputing Research and Development
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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BITNET: marco@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edumarco@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu (09/07/87)
Thanks to everyone for all the responses to my pronunciation requests.
The answer is:
UNIX V is Unix System Five and
UNIX v7 is Unix Version Seven
UNIX V.2 is Unix System Five Release Two
Thanks again.
--David
David M. Marcovitz
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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BITNET: marco@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edLEpeter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (09/08/87)
> UNIX V "UNIX System 5" or "System 5" > UNIX V7 "Version 7 UNIX" or "Version 7" -- -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!seismo!soma!uhnix1!sugar!peter -- 'U` <-- Public domain wolf.
eric@snark.UUCP (09/09/87)
In article <673@sugar.UUCP>, peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: > > UNIX V > > "UNIX System 5" or "System 5" > > > UNIX V7 > > "Version 7 UNIX" or "Version 7" > -- > -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!seismo!soma!uhnix1!sugar!peter > -- 'U` <-- Public domain wolf. Who uses these long names unless they're being really formal? Version 6 = "vee-six" Version 7 = "vee-seven" System III = "sys-three" System V = "sys-five" (sometimes even "sys-vee") System V Release 2 = "sys-five-ahrr-two" or "five-ahrr-two" 4.1BSD = "four-point-one" or "four-one" \ 4.2BSD = "four-point-two" or "four-two" |- "bee-ess-dee" optional 4.3BSD = "four-point-three" or "four-three" / Xenix = "zeeniks" IN/IX = "that losing IBM trash" ;-) UniPlus = "oh no! not *again*!" ;-) ;-) -- Eric S. Raymond UUCP: {{seismo,ihnp4,rutgers}!cbmvax,sdcrdcf!burdvax,vu-vlsi}!snark!eric Post: 22 South Warren Avenue, Malvern, PA 19355 Phone: (215)-296-5718
ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) (09/21/87)
It's not IN/IX...it's PC/IX, of which my favorite pronuciation is PC-NINE.
peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (09/22/87)
In article <165@snark.UUCP>, eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) writes: > In article <673@sugar.UUCP>, peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: > > > UNIX V > > "UNIX System 5" or "System 5" > > > UNIX V7 > > "Version 7 UNIX" or "Version 7" > Who uses these long names unless they're being really formal? I do. I usually say "System five" and "version seven". But then I talk to a lot of people who aren't dedicated UNIX hackers. > System V Release 2 = "sys-five-ahrr-two" or "five-ahrr-two" "five point two" > 4.1BSD = "four-point-one" or "four-one" \ > 4.2BSD = "four-point-two" or "four-two" |- "bee-ess-dee" optional > 4.3BSD = "four-point-three" or "four-three" / Often just "BSD" or "four BSD". If it's still 4.1 at this point in time I hope it's at least 4.1D. Otherwise it's really not important. Why do people bother including signatures? -- -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter -- 'U` Have you hugged your wolf today?
nather@ut-sally.UUCP (Ed Nather) (09/22/87)
In article <14927@topaz.rutgers.edu>, ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes: > It's not IN/IX...it's PC/IX, of which my favorite pronuciation is > PC-NINE. This is in the same fine tradition as pronouncing "vi" as "six." -- Ed Nather Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin {allegra,ihnp4}!{noao,ut-sally}!utastro!nather nather@astro.AS.UTEXAS.EDU
dmt@ptsfa.UUCP (Dave Turner) (09/23/87)
In article <793@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <165@snark.UUCP>, eric@snark.UUCP (Eric S. Raymond) writes: >> In article <673@sugar.UUCP>, peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: > >> System V Release 2 = "sys-five-ahrr-two" or "five-ahrr-two" > "five point two" ^^^^^ According to my AT&T salesman, it is incorrect to say five point 2. They say that it is System five Release 2 (but 2.0 or 2.1.0 is ok) -- Dave Turner 415/542-1299 {ihnp4,lll-crg,qantel,pyramid}!ptsfa!dmt
henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (09/29/87)
> ...I usually say "System five" ...
Some of us say "system vee", also. You don't think there will ever be
a system six, do you?
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In article <8666@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes: >> ...I usually say "System five" ... > >Some of us say "system vee", also. You don't think there will ever be >a system six, do you? >-- >"There's a lot more to do in space | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology >than sending people to Mars." --Bova | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry Do you also say "System eye eye eye" instead of "System three" (System III)? BTW, There is now a Version 8 Unix, I don't find System VI (or System IX, as AT&T seems to to be going in multiples of three) to be an outlandish idea at all. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "You'se can bet your last nickle that women is fickle..." Popey the Sailor Man K. J. Seefried iii School of Information and Computer Science P.O. Box 30104, Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,rutgers,seismo}!gatech!gitpyr!eeproks \-!gatech!gt-stratus!ken internet: eeproks@pyr.gatech.edu || ken@stratus.gatech.edu
henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (10/02/87)
> >Some of us say "system vee", also. You don't think there will ever be > >a system six, do you? > > Do you also say "System eye eye eye" instead of "System three" (System III)? Nope. Who cares about System III any more? > BTW, There is now a Version 8 Unix, I don't find System VI (or System IX, as > AT&T seems to to be going in multiples of three) to be an outlandish idea at > all. There is both a V8 and a V9 within Bell Labs, and I wouldn't be surprised to see a V10 before very long. However, you have missed the point: this has *nothing* to do with what AT&T is marketing. "System V" is now a magic marketing buzzword, not a numbering scheme, which is why we have System V Release 2 and System V Release 3 instead of System VI and VII. -- PS/2: Yesterday's hardware today. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology OS/2: Yesterday's software tomorrow. | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry