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Aucbvax.5612 fa.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!unix-wizards Sun Dec 27 15:02:53 1981 unices >From sdcarl!rusty@Berkeley Sun Dec 27 14:48:08 1981 This is something I've been curious about and now that this netnews stuff is spreading its tentacles around I thought it might be a good time to toss out my request.

I am interested in information on the various versions and flavors of Unix. Information such as "There is a Unix called Version 7 available from Bell Labs, it is the successor to their Version 6 Unix, it differs from Version 6 by being slower but more robust. As distributed it will probably only run on the larger PDP11s; 11/45 and 11/70, but with some work one might be able to get it to run on an 11/34.", or "There is a Unix called 32/V available from Bell Labs, it is essentially identical to their Version 7 Unix but it runs on the DEC Vax 11/780.", etc. Useful information would be a comparison against Version 7 or Version 6 Unix, advantages and disadvantages in comparison to Bell Lab's Unix, machines it runs on, price, distinguishing features, etc.

It also might be interesting to get information on systems that are supersets of Unix, for example I have heard of something called Trix that I think is being developed at MIT.

If you could send your information to me I will collect it all together and then send it back out. My uucp net- work address is

...!ucbvax!sdcarl!rusty

>From within Bell Labs I can be reached as

...!research!sdcarl!rusty ...!cbosgd!sdcarl!rusty ...!ihnss!sdcarl!rusty (this may not still work)

>From the arpanet as

csvax.rusty at berkeley

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