Wollongong Unix
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A port of Version 6 Unix
Version 6 Unix
Sixth Edition Unix, also called Version 6 Unix or just V6, was the first version of the Unix operating system to see wide release outside Bell Labs. It was released in May 1975 and, like its direct predecessor, targeted the DEC PDP-11 family of minicomputers...

 to the Interdata 7/32 was completed by Richard Miller and Ross Nealon at Wollongong University, Australia
Australia
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, during 1976-1977. This project was supervised by professor Juris Reinfelds. The resulting system was called Wollongong Interdata UNIX, Level 6. This distribution also included utilities developed at Wollongong, and later releases had features of V7, notably its C
C (programming language)
C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system....

 compiler
Compiler
A compiler is a computer program that transforms source code written in a programming language into another computer language...

. Wollongong Unix was the first ever port to a platform other than the PDP series of computers, proving that portable operating systems were indeed feasible, and that C was the language in which to write them. In 1980, this version was licensed to The Wollongong Group in Palo Alto that published it as Edition 7.

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