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UNIX System III

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The system was apparently called System III because it was considered the outside release of UNIX/TS 3.0.1 and CB UNIX 3 which were internally supported Bell Labs Unices; its manual refers to it as
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and there were no Unix versions called System I or System II. There was no official release of UNIX/TS 4.0 (which would have been
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Whatever happened to System IV is one of the great unsolved mysteries of computer science.
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AT&T announced System III in late 1981, and it was first released outside of
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by outside organizations. However, it did not include notable additions made in
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Dolotta, T. A.; Olsson, S. B.; Petruccelli, A. G., eds. (June 1980).
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in 1982. UNIX System III was a mix of various AT&T Unix systems:
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Third-party variants of System III include (early versions of)
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Index

Version 3 Unix
Refer to caption
Developer
AT&T
Written in
C
Unix
Closed source
Available in
English
DEC
PDP-11
VAX
Default
user interface

Command-line interface
UNIX System V
Unix
AT&T
Bell Labs
Version 7 Unix
PWB/UNIX
CB UNIX
UNIX/RT
UNIX/32V
DEC
PDP-11
VAX
System V
named pipes
uname

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