Talk:UNIX System V

Pronounciation

Is it pronounced "System Vee" or "System Five"? Dismas 03:01, 2 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

It is pronounced System 5. System 4, 3, 2, and 1 were earlier versions. Also, I'd like to point out that IRIX (A SVR4 with BSD extensions) is not mentioned in the article and is not present in the graphics of the UNIX tree.--RageX 04:01, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, there were no Systems 2 and 1, AFAIK. This is interesting though: does anyone know where the name System III came from? I have System III source code (available here), and it's documentation refers to it as UNIX Edition 3.0.

IRIX isn't in the tree because it isn't important enough. But maybe it should be mentioned in the article, in a list of System V derivatives? Qwertyus 14:16, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

IRIX is not important enough yet MINIX some how makes it in? How about a more accurate and large tree like so http://www.levenez.com/unix/history.html --RageX 08:11, 25 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

IRIX, based on AT&T code, isn't important enough, but MINIX, which has no AT&T code, is? Methinks the original creator of the graph (it ain't a tree - it's not even connected, as there's a completely unconnected subgraph for, wait for it, MINIX) needs a visit from Mr. Cluebat. Guy Harris 08:33, 25 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I think "System I" would have been "UNIX/TS 1.0", which, I think, was an AT&T-internal mixture of a V7 predecessor and some parts of PWB/UNIX. ("TS" was for "Time-Sharing"; there was also a "UNIX/RT" which was built atop a MERT base.). "System II" was probably PWB/UNIX 2.0, which added the rest of PWB/UNIX to UNIX/TS. "UNIX 3.0" was the result of merging that with "Columbus UNIX" (extensions developed by Bell Labs in Columbus, Ohio) a/k/a "CB UNIX" to make a somewhat unified UNIX. 3.0.1 added support for the PDP-11/44, and that was released outside of AT&T as "System III", rather than "UNIX 3.0.1", for some reason. Later 4.x releases weren't generally released outside of AT&T, but UNIX 5.0 was released as "System V". Guy Harris 08:07, 24 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Chart is not NPOV

Calling the operating system GNU/Linux is taking a POV in the GNU/Linux naming controversy.