- Version 8 Unix
Eight Edition Unix, also known as Version 8 Unix or V8, was a version of the
Research Unix operating system developed and used internally atBell Labs . It was "released" inFebruary 1985 , ran onVAX hardware, and was a variant of 4.1cBSD with some System V.2 features (notably the shell). V8 was the successor to V7 and the predecessor to V9.V8 Unix introduced the
STREAMS I/O mechanism, the /proc filesystem and several other features later incorporated into System V.V8 also featured a network file system, which permitted access to other machines' entire filesystem trees. For example, the file /etc/passwd on server foovax would be accessible to client machines as /n/foovax/etc/passwd.
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The Unix Programming Environment " was prepared on a VAX-11/750 running a preliminary version of V8 Unix. [http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2003-June/000628.html]External links
* [http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/st.html A Stream Input-Output System]
* [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=320599.320694 The UNIX Eighth Edition Network File System]
* [http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/eschrock?entry=the_power_of_proc Eric Schrock's weblog: A brief history of /proc]
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