AT&T "nth Edition" vs. "Release n"

[Alan Hargreaves]

subbarao at phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao) writes:

>I've seen people that use System V and the like refer to their Unix as
>"tenth edition" or "ninth edition", or whatever. I've always seen things as
>"System V release n", or whatever. Anyone know the difference between these
>different naming schemes ?

ok, easy really. nth Edition refers to the revision of the UNIX manuals
inside AT&T. ie each time the manuals have changed substantially from the last
set, n gets incremented.

eg the version that the original system V was based on was 8th edition,
i believe that the current manual set is 10th edition.

alan.
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