V (operating system)

For the Unix variant, see UNIX System V.
V
DeveloperDavid Cheriton
Written inC
OS familyDistributed operating system
Working stateDiscontinued
Initial release1981; 43 years ago (1981)
Latest releaseFinal / 1988; 36 years ago (1988)
Marketing targetResearch
Available inEnglish
Update methodCompile from source code
PlatformsWorkstations:
SUN, MicroVAX, DEC Firefly
Kernel typeMicrokernel
Default
user interface		VGTS
LicenseStanford University
Preceded byThoth, Verex

The V operating system (sometimes written V-System) is a discontinued microkernel distributed operating system that was developed by faculty and students in the Distributed Systems Group at Stanford University from 1981 to 1988, led by Professors David Cheriton and Keith A. Lantz.[1] V was the successor to the Thoth operating system and Verex kernel that Cheriton had developed in the 1970s.[2][3] Despite similar names and close development dates, it is unrelated to UNIX System V.

  1. ^ "Past Research in the DSG". Distributed Systems Group. 20 July 1995. Archived from the original on 27 July 2012. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
  2. ^ Cheriton, David R. (1982). The Thoth system: multi-process structuring and portability. North-Holland. ISBN 0-444-00701-6.
  3. ^ Cheriton, David R. (January 1981). "The design of a distributed kernel". Proceedings of the ACM '81 conference on - ACM 81. pp. 46–52. doi:10.1145/800175.809831. ISBN 0-89791-049-4. S2CID 14212831.