[1] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

version 7 alt. v7 /vee' se'vn/ n. the first widely distributed version
   of unix, released unsupported by bell labs in 1978. the term is used
   adjectivally to describe unix features and programs that date from that
   release, and are thus guaranteed to be present and portable in all unix
   versions this was the standard gauge of portability before the posix
   and ieee 1003 standards. note that this usage does _not_ derive from
   the release being the "seventh version of unix"; research unix at
   bell labs has traditionally been numbered according to the edition of
   the associated documentation. indeed, only the widely-distributed sixth
   and seventh editions are widely known as v67; the os that might today
   be known as `v10' is instead known in full as "tenth edition research
   unix" or just "tenth edition" for short. for this reason, "v7" is often
   read by cognoscenti as "seventh edition". see bsd, unix. some
   old-timers impatient with commercialization and kernel bloat still
   maintain that v7 was the last true unix.


see also:
unix bsd 

[2] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

version 7
     
         v7 the unsupported release of unix
        ancestral to all current commercial versions.  brian
        kernighan announced the release of v7 in summer 1979, at the
        unix user's group meeting in toronto.
     
        before the release of the posix/svid standards, v7's
        features were often treated as a unix portability baseline.
        some old-timers impatient with commercialisation and kernel
        bloat still maintain that v7 was the last true unix.
     
        see bsd, usg unix, system v.
     
        jargon file
     
        1996-05-22
     
     
see also:
unix brian kernighan unix user's posix svid standard 
kernel bloat bsd usg unix system v jargon file 

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