Older versions of PHYLIP

Archaeopteryx

PHYLIP has been distributed since October of 1980, when version 1.0 was released. Early versions differed mostly by minor bug fixes, but as time went on more and more changes were included in each release.

Several older versions of PHYLIP are available from our server. These were in Pascal, and what you will find there is the Pascal source code and the documentation files. (At a later date I may also release the compiled executables for some of these versions.)

They are in the form of Unix tar archives, which can be un-tar'ed on any Unix server, but putting them in a directory of their own and then issuing the command
   tar xvf phylip17.tar
(or whatever the archive name is).

The versions are:

Version    Date of Release    Name of archive file    Size of archive file   
1.7 December, 1981 phylip17.tar 266K
2.2 April, 1982 phylip22.tar 727K
2.51 February, 1984 phylip251.tar 686K
2.61 December, 1984 phylip261.tar 829K
2.7 July, 1985 phylip27.tar 1044K
3.0 April, 1987 phylip30.tar 1741K
3.1 March, 1988 phylip31.tar 2.15Mb
3.3 March, 1990 phylip33.tar 2.18Mb
3.4 June, 1991 phylip34.tar 2.73Mb
3.5c March, 1993 (see below)

More are coming. Version 1.7 is the earliest one that I have. Version 1.0 was released in October, 1980. A reading of the "bugs" file in version 1.7 will show that only a few bug fixes and minor features separate versions 1.0 and 1.7.

These programs are, of course, primitive compared to later programs. They are presented here primarily for their historical interest.

 

Version 3.5c

Although the official version now being distributed is 3.6, the previous version, 3.5c, was so widely used that it may be useful to continue to have it available here.

Registration of 3.5c

If you wish, you can register here after you have transferred version 3.5c

Installation of 3.5c

Here you will find more information about how to install PHYLIP 3.5c on your computer once you have fetched the appropriate archive files.

Download 3.5c

For Unix workstations, VAXen, etc.:

For Intel compatible processors with Windows95, Windows98, or WindowsNT:

For 386, 486, or Pentium systems running Windows 3.1:

For 386, 486, or Pentium systems running DOS:

For pre-386 systems (such as PC/AT or PC/XT compatibles):

For PowerMacs:

For Macintoshes that are not PowerMacs:

This is access number of the pages for fetching copies of PHYLIP since 1 January 2010. In 1996 there were 7,905 accesses. (In 1997-1999 no count was made). In 2000 there were 21,414 accesses, in 2001 there were 27,781, in 2002, 33,652, in 2003, 38,543, in 2004, 44,004, in 2005, 43,033, in 2006, 42,421, in 2007 39,926, in 2008, 38,855, and in 2009, 35,412.

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