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+ | ====== Fourth Edition Unix ====== | ||
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+ | **Release Date:** November 1973\\ | ||
+ | **Released By:** Bell Labs Research\\ | ||
+ | **Source Code: ** a kernel which predates 4th Edition is [[http:// | ||
+ | **Documentation: | ||
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+ | The fourth edition of Unix was the first version to have a kernel written in a high level language, C, along with some of the commands. A full and complete copy of Fourth Edition no longer exists. We have: | ||
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+ | * The manuals for Fourth Edition in machine-readable format, and | ||
+ | * A copy of the earliest extant kernel in C, the " | ||
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+ | The " | ||
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+ | This is a tar archive derived from a DECtape labelled " | ||
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+ | The Fourth Edition marks the first edition of research UNIX for which the accompanying manual is produced in NROFF rather than ROFF. Many deprecated/ | ||
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+ | Changes include: | ||
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+ | * Epoch is redefined as seconds from 1/1/1970 instead of ms from 1/1/1972 | ||
+ | * Addition of the signal(II) syscall, deprecating cemt, fpe, ilgins, intr, and quit syscalls for specific signals | ||
+ | * Alteration of makdir(II) into the mknod(II) syscall | ||
+ | * Removal of the mdate(II) and rele(II) syscalls | ||
+ | * The stty(II) interface has been altered to be less DC-11 specific | ||
+ | * open(II) now supports mode " | ||
+ | * nice(II) allows setting a priority (rather than dropping to a fixed one) | ||
+ | * mount(II) expands mountable filesystem count past 4 | ||
+ | * kill(II) can now be used to send arbitrary signals, not just kill itself | ||
+ | * stat(II) now reports if a file is a block or character special file | ||
+ | * exec(II) drops support for V1 a.out files | ||
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+ | * Deprecation of applications targeting the assembly version of UNIX such as tmg(VI) and m6(VI) | ||
+ | * Deprecation of the salloc(III) library | ||
+ | * Removal of any remaining formal B support | ||
+ | * Removed DECish basic(VI) in favor of bas(I) | ||
+ | * New dump(VIII)/ | ||
+ | * chdir(I) now makes mention of needing ' | ||
+ | * Group support added to file modifiers | ||
+ | * cref(I) gains better C support | ||
+ | * date(I) adds support for setting the year | ||
+ | * Core files now include the per-process data at the front, not the back | ||
+ | * Adds support for shared text segments | ||
+ | * login(I) now always prompts for a password as opposed to receiving it as an argument | ||
+ | * Manpages have been moved from /sys/man to /usr/man | ||
+ | * Sources have been moved from /sys/sys to /usr/sys | ||
+ | * Supports using | or ^ as pipe instead of > | ||
+ | * The tty driver supports 12 terminals instead of 10 | ||
+ | * the tty driver now discards the entire buffer on overflow instead of printing '#' | ||
+ | * The tty driver maps uppercase to lowercase if only uppercase is used | ||
+ | * The console driver now has greater parity with other tty drivers | ||
+ | * Block devices now present a raw interface and buffered access | ||
+ | * Filesystem filenames (as opposed to ar(I) filenames) are extended to 14 characters | ||
+ | * Filesystem objects (as opposed to ar(I) objects) now support group bits | ||
+ | * In both above cases, ar(I) is *not* updated to support these | ||
+ | * Indirect blocks are added to support larger filesystems (e.g. RP disks) | ||
+ | * 2741 terminal support appears to be on the way out | ||
+ | * The init system now utilizes /etc/rc for operations such as mounting disks (rather than filesystems being hard-coded into init) | ||
+ | * A new boot procedure is provided for the C UNIX system | ||
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+ | * Section I adds catsim, comm, file, grep, merge, nice, nohup, pfe, plot, shift, sleep, tr, troff, wait | ||
+ | * Section II adds intro, getgid, indir, setgid | ||
+ | * Section III adds getarg, getchr, getpw, hmul, ierror, ldiv, nargs, perror, printf, putchr, reset, setfil, vt | ||
+ | * Section IV adds cat, da, tiu, vs | ||
+ | * Section VI adds azel, chess, cubic, maze, sfs, sky, spline, wump | ||
+ | * Section VII adds tmheader | ||
+ | * Section VIII adds ino, mkfs, mknod, sync, update | ||
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+ | For more information about Fourth Edition Unix, see [[http:// | ||
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