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! 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:
- Unix for Beginners
- A Tutorial Introduction to the Unix Text Editor
- Programming in C − A Tutorial
- C Reference Manual
- Unix Assembler Reference Manual
- The Unix I/O System
- YACC − Yet Another Compiler-Compiler
- Setting Up Unix - Sixth Edition
- The Unix Time-Sharing System
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.
- ! Unix Programmer's Manual, 7th Edition, Volume 2A
- ! Unix Programmer's Manual, 7th Edition, Volume 2B
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.
- ! Unix Programmer's Manual, 6th Edition
- Programming in C − A Tutorial
- C Reference Manual
- A tour through the Unix C compiler
Related Pages
- VirtualHub Screenshots
- Run ! Unix v6 in your web browser (Instructions on page)
- Wikipedia
- Wikipedia PDP-11 page
- Computer History Wiki ! Unix v6 page
- Computer History Wiki PDP-11 page
- The Unix Heritage Society (TUHS) wiki page on ! Unix v6
- Computer History Wiki tutorial on running ! Unix v6 on SIMH
- Tutorial from squoze.net on running ! Unix v6 on SIMH
Credits
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The manuals were taken from http://squoze.net, this page from Bell Labs and Bitsavers.
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The Lions book is available from http://www.lemis.com/ and the associated source code booklet from http://v6.cuzuco.com/.