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V7 /V'sev'en/ N. See Version 7.
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V7 /V'sev'en/ n.
See Version 7.
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Version 7: alt. V7 /vee' se'vn/ n. The 1978 unsupported release of {{UNIX}} ancestral to all current commercial versions.
Before the release of the POSIX/SVID standards, V7's features were often treated as a UNIX portability baseline....
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)....
USG Unix /U-S-G yoo'niks/ n. Refers to AT&T Unix commercial versions after Version 7, especially System III and System V releases 1, 2, and 3.
So called because during most of the lifespan of those versions AT&...
USG UNIX: /U-S-G yoo'niks/ n. Refers to AT&T UNIX commercial versions after {Version 7}, especially System III and System V releases 1, 2, and 3.
So called because during most of the lifespan of those versions AT&T's support crew was called the `UNIX Support Group'....
I only wish I may see your head stroked down with a slipper.
-- Terence (185-159 BC) -- Act v, Sc. 7, 4, (1028.)...
wab: /swob/ [From the mnemonic for the PDP-11 `SWAp Byte' instruction, as immortalized in the `dd(1)' option `conv=swab' (see {dd})] 1.
vt. To solve the {NUXI problem} by swapping bytes in a file....
ound tape n. Industry-standard 1/2-inch magnetic tape (7- or 9-track) on traditional circular reels.
See macrotape, oppose square tape....
demo /de'moh/ [short for `demonstration'] 1. v. To demonstrate a product or prototype.
A far more effective way of inducing bugs to manifest than any number of test runs, especially when important people are watching....
unswizzle v. See swizzle.