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.TH STANDARDS 7 2013-09-06 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH STANDARDS 7 2014-01-15 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
standards \- C and UNIX Standards
.SH DESCRIPTION
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The following list briefly describes these standards.
.TP
.B V7
Version 7, the ancestral UNIX from Bell Labs.
Version 7 (also known as Seventh Edition) UNIX,
released by AT&T/Bell Labs in 1979.
After this point, UNIX systems diverged into two main dialects:
BSD and System V.
.TP
.B 4.2BSD
This is an implementation standard defined by the 4.2 release