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Wikipedia: UNIX System V
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UNIX System V (commonly known as SysV) – a version of the UNIX system released after version III and developed at AT&T’s Bell Labs. A branch of the system was created based on it, which became the basis for commercial versions of Unix released by AT&T starting in 1983.
System V is a direct successor to the system written in 1969 by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson. It was often contrasted with the version of UNIX originating from the University of Berkeley, known as BSD, although both branches very often intertwined, exchanging functions and code.
Based on the licensed code of System V, many commercial versions of Unix were created, including AIX, A/UX, HP-UX and Xenix, developed for Microsoft. Based on the System V Release 4 (SVR4) and related features developed between 1987 and 1989 by Sun Microsystems and AT&T, commercial Unixes were standardized after 1989.
The last version of SVR4 was release 4.2MP, released in late 1993 by Unix System Laboratories (USL, formerly Bell Labs), then owned by Novell. It was used as a basis for the UnixWare 2 product, which combined Unix with classic NetWare.
After Novell sold the rights to develop the SysV code to Santa Cruz Operation, version 5 (SVR5) became the basis for UnixWare 7. SCO later released SCO OpenServer 6, based on the SVR5 code. However, the SVR5 source code is no longer used by other manufacturers.
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