Ultrix-11

Jay Jaeger cube1 at charter.net
Sat Aug 21 22:50:25 CDT 2021


On 8/17/2021 1:39 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
> I thought V7M and Ultrix were entirely diferent and unrelated things.
> 
> At least on the Pro, DEC released a betal version of the one (which I tried when it came out) and then canceled it and replaced it by a release of the other.  I forgot which came first, other than that the beta was really clunky.  As in, a "vi" that didn't do real screen updates...
> 
> 	paul
> 
>> On Aug 17, 2021, at 2:16 PM, Al Kossow via cctech <cctech at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>
>> images up under http://bitsavers.org/bits/DEC/pdp11/floppyimages/rx50/V7M-11-V1.0_6_USR_RX50-QJ083-H3.zip
> 

They are indeed different.  V7m is based on 7th edition A&T UNIX, 
whereas Ultrix was based in BSD.

JRJ


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