Talk:Ancient UNIX Systems

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[edit] V5 vs SysV

To the well-meaning person who redirected the V5 link to UNIX System V: Unix versioning is rather complicated, and differs radically based on what part of the family tree you're talking about. Fifth Edition is actually a Research Unix and predates the earliest versions of SysV by over a decade; as far as I know it was never released commercially, and operated at only about 50 sites. (Frankly, the only freely available SysV version, OpenSolaris, would probably plow a GBA into the ground and bury it. V5 is far more lightweight.) Haikupoet (talk) 04:12, 5 December 2007 (UTC)