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		dveeden2 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unix v4 (1973) – Live Terminal Things that I noticed are not yet there in this version: /proc, uptime, uname Things that are working: `cal 2026`, coredumps Things that might be broken or aren't working as expected: ps (only returns "No mem") And utmp is in /tmp? And no /usr/sbin or /sbin? And nothing in /usr/local? The messages from `write root` are only in uppercase.

gdgghhhhh 6 days ago [–]

/proc is a Linux thing.

dveeden2 6 days ago | [–]

/proc is only copied (and extended) by Linux. It was introduced in UNIX V8. It is also in Solaris and FreeBSD.

anthk 6 days ago | | | [–]

Unix v8 it's basically pre-plan9.

gdgghhhhh 6 days ago | | | [–]

Oh. I was not aware of that

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