Ralph Corderoy wrote in
<20240606095502.AD4EE210F4(a)orac.inputplus.co.uk>:
|There's a chart of the connections between Unix versions at
|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unix_systems, though I dislike the
|lack of direction given there are some arcs with little incline.
|It says it's based on
https://www.levenez.com/unix/ where Éric notes his
|chart is not limited to just source-code transfer.
I also admire that FreeBSD and NetBSD keep on maintaining the
bsd-family-tree (and in the original form, not that dots thing, or
how it was called). So that starts with
First Edition (V1)
|
Second Edition (V2)
|
Third Edition (V3)
|
Fourth Edition (V4)
|
Fifth Edition (V5)
|
Sixth Edition (V6) -----*
\ |
\ |
\ |
Seventh Edition (V7)----|----------------------*
\ | |
\ 1BSD |
32V | |
\ 2BSD---------------* |
\ / | |
\ / | |
\/ | |
3BSD | |
| | |
4.0BSD 2.79BSD |
| | |
4.1BSD --------------> 2.8BSD <-*
| |
4.1aBSD -----------\ |
| \ |
4.1bBSD \ |
| \ |
*------ 4.1cBSD --------------> 2.9BSD
/ | |
Eighth Edition | 2.9BSD-Seismo
| | |
+----<--- 4.2BSD 2.9.1BSD
...
and says
Multics 1965
UNIX Summer 1969
DEC PDP-7
First Edition 1971-11-03 [QCU]
DEC PDP-11/20, Assembler
Second Edition 1972-06-12 [QCU]
10 UNIX installations
Third Edition 1973-02-xx [QCU]
Pipes, 16 installations
Fourth Edition 1973-11-xx [QCU]
rewriting in C effected,
above 30 installations
Fifth Edition 1974-06-xx [QCU]
above 50 installations
Sixth Edition 1975-05-xx [QCU]
port to DEC Vax
Seventh Edition 1979-01-xx [QCU] 1979-01-10 [TUHS]
first portable UNIX
..
with a nice Bibliography with falsely underscored headline plus
URL:
https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/share/misc/bsd-family-tree
It also covers the system most of you are using (later).
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)