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was founded by Warren Toomey. First edition Unix was restored to a usable state by a restoration team from the Unix Heritage Society in 2008. The restoration process started with paper listings of the source code which were in PDP-11 assembly language.
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case, Novell, Inc. was found to not have transferred the copyrights of UNIX to SCO Group, Inc. Concerns have been raised regarding the validity of the Caldera license.
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line editor in those early Unixes. Therefore, "traditional" vi could not be distributed freely, and various work-alikes (such as
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As of 2022, there has been no widespread use of the code, but it can be used on emulator systems, and
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teaching system, which is an update of that version to ANSI C and the x86 or RISC-V platform.
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Toomey, Warren (July 2010). "First Edition Unix: Its Creation and Restoration".
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SCO Group, Inc. was previously called Caldera International. As a result of the
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Restoration of 1st Edition UNIX kernel sources from Bell Laboratories
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Index


Version 5 Unix
PDP-11
SIMH

Version 6 Unix
PDP-11
SIMH

Version 7 Unix
PDP-11
SIMH
Unix
System III
Research Unix
UNIX/32V
AT&T Unix
Lions' book
codebase
Caldera International
SCO Group
relicensed
BSD license
Research Unix
Version 6 Unix
Version 7 Unix
UNIX/32V
Nintendo
Game Boy Advance
SIMH

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