version 7

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version 7 - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Version 7
  
     <operating system> (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)
  

version 7 - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  Version 7
   /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 V[67]; 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.