[TUHS] Historical Papers on Unix now online

[TUHS] Historical Papers on Unix now online

[Aharon Robbins]

A friend sent this to me. Both of these mailing lists are likely
to find this of interest.  I have a paper copy of the 1978 BSTJ,
either the '82 or '83 issues, whichever one was devoted to Unix. :-)

Arnold

> Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 17:42:14 -0700 (MST)
> From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe at math.utah.edu>
> To: fslc at fslc.usu.edu
> Cc: beebe at math.utah.edu
> Subject: [fslc] historical papers on Unix now online
>
> The Bell System Technical Journal from 1922 to 1983 is now online at
>
> 	http://bstj.bell-labs.com/
>
> with free downloadable PDFs of all articles.
>
> I've downloaded all of the HTML files, and found that just three of
> them contain mention of Unix:
>
> 	BSTJ.1978.5706-2.html
> 	BSTJ.1982.6109.html
> 	BSTJ.1983.6206.html
>
> Some of those important early articles that document the development
> of Unix have also been reprinted in these books:
>
> @String{pub-PH                  = "Pren{\-}tice-Hall"}
> @String{pub-PH:adr              = "Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458, USA"}
>
> @Book{ATT:AUS86-1,
>   author =       "AT{\&T}",
>   key =          "ATT",
>   title =        "{AT}{\&T UNIX} System Readings and Applications",
>   volume =       "I",
>   publisher =    pub-PH,
>   address =      pub-PH:adr,
>   pages =        "xiv + 397",
>   year =         "1986",
>   ISBN =         "0-13-938532-0",
>   ISBN-13 =      "978-0-13-938532-2",
>   LCCN =         "QA76.76.O63 U553 1986",
>   bibdate =      "Sat Oct 28 08:25:56 2000",
> }
>
> @Book{ATT:AUS86-2,
>   author =       "AT{\&T}",
>   key =          "ATT",
>   title =        "{AT}{\&T UNIX} System Readings and Applications",
>   volume =       "II",
>   publisher =    pub-PH,
>   address =      pub-PH:adr,
>   pages =        "xii + 324",
>   year =         "1986",
>   ISBN =         "0-13-939845-7",
>   ISBN-13 =      "978-0-13-939845-2",
>   LCCN =         "QA76.76.O63 U553 1986",
>   bibdate =      "Sat Oct 28 08:25:58 2000",
> }
>
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[TUHS] Historical Papers on Unix now online

[Warren Toomey]

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On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 08:10:38AM +0200, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> A friend sent this to me. Both of these mailing lists are likely
> to find this of interest.  I have a paper copy of the 1978 BSTJ,
> either the '82 or '83 issues, whichever one was devoted to Unix. :-)

I thought the BSTJ went into 1984, as I have some references to 1984 issues,
e,g, The Evolution of UNIX System Performance. Bell System Technical Journal,
63(8):1791–1814, October 1984.

I've mailed Rod Alferness to see if there are any later issues.

Cheers,
	Warren

[TUHS] Historical Papers on Unix now online

[Norman Wilson]

Warren:

  I thought the BSTJ went into 1984, as I have some references to 1984 issues,
  e,g, The Evolution of UNIX System Performance. Bell System Technical Journal,
  63(8):1791b\x131814, October 1984.

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The journal's name changed at the end of 1983, from Bell System Technical
Journal to AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Journal, to reflect
divestiture.

There was indeed a late-1984 all-UNIX-papers issue of the BLTJ, but
technically (and journally) it was the BLTJ then, not the BSTJ.

I don't know whether there are issues of copyright-ownership or
the like over the post-divestiture journal (does it belong to
Bell Labs, now owned by Alcatel, or to AT&T, now owned by
Southern Bell?) that interfere with releasing the latter-day
journal.

Norman Wilson
Toronto ON
(actually passing through Davis CA on a train, but
who cares?)