Cray® Message System Programmer's Guide

Document Number: 007-3548-002
Document Number: SG-2121-6.5

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The UNICOS operating system is derived from UNIX® System V. The UNICOS operating system is also based in part on the Fourth Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) under license from The Regents of the University of California.

Record of Revision

Revision 6.0January 1991 
Original Printing.

Revision 7.0June 1992 
Reprint with revision to reflect message system features added in the UNICOS 7.0 release.

Revision 8.0January 1994 
Revision to reflect message system features added in the UNICOS 8.0 release. This revision is only distributed online through Docview.

Revision 8.3January 1995 
Revision to reflect message system features added in the UNICOS 8.3 release for X/Open compliance. This revision is only distributed online through Docview.

Revision 9.0July 1995 
Reprint with revision to reflect message system features added since the last reprint.

Revision 6.5May 1998 
Revision to support the IRIX operating system 6.5 release.