version

n 1: an interpretation of a matter from a particular viewpoint;

"his version of the fight was different from mine"

2: something a little different from others of the same type;

"an experimental version of the night fighter"; "an emery

wheel is a modern variant of the grindstone" [syn: {variant},

{variation}]

3: a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new

form: "the play is an adaptation of a short novel" [syn: {adaptation}]

4: a written communication in a second language having the same

meaning as the written communication in a first language

[syn: {translation}, {interlingual rendition}, {rendering}]

5: a mental representation of the meaning or significance of

something [syn: {interpretation}, {reading}]

Version 7

(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} {standard}s, 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)