Quoting <199908031727.NAA04662 at suberic.net>
by kevin lyda <kevin at suberic.net>:
> they used to. i played with version 5 and version 7 unix this
> weekend. neither has vi, that was added later. version 7 had a slew
> of new binaries and rather simple things were very different. for
> instance /bin/sh in v5 only understood chdir - in version 7 it
> became the much more sane cd.
Speaking of Unix history, I highly recommend "A Quarter Century of
Unix" by Peter H. Salus, ISBN 0-201-54777-5
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