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./unix-v6.webp ! Unix v6 was an operating system for the DEC PDP-11 computer. It was later ported to Interdata 7/32 computer. 1

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! Unix v6

! Unix v6

! Unix v6 was an operating system for the DEC PDP-11 computer. It was later ported to Interdata 7/32 computer. It was developed by Bell Labs. It can be used on SIMH PDP-11 and Interdata 7/32 emulators.

Manuals

Here is the manual for ! Unix v6:

There were a bunch of short documents for use with ! Unix v6. Some of them are available today:

Many of the other short documents are not available today, but they are available in the volume 2A and 2B of ! Unix v7 manual. While the manual is for v7, most of the information included there applies to every version of Unix.

You may also be interested in the PDP-11 manuals. It was the computer on which ! Unix v6 was supposed to run. You can download them from Bitsavers:

A famous book about the ! Unix v6 source code is "A Commentary on the Sixth Edition Unix Operating System" by J. Lions. You can download the book and the associated source code booklet from here:

Interdata 7/32-specific Documentation

These documents were extracted from the Interdata 7/32 Unix port's installation, and converted to PDF. They only cover the differences in the Interdata 7/32 port. For the full manuals, see above.

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