From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 19:47:20 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Fwd: A cameo by UNIX in BSTJ In-Reply-To: <20130724013409.GB19629@neddie.local.net> References: <20130724013409.GB19629@neddie.local.net> Message-ID: <20130724024720.GH28626@bitmover.com> I'd like to know where I can get the entire BSTJ. For the record, Bell Labs was the *the* place when I was growing up. Reading their journals was right up there with having an account on slovax at uwisc and reading the bell labs/BSD source. On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:34:10AM +1000, Warren Toomey wrote: > All, I got this interesting e-mail from Poul-Henning a few days ago. > Warren > > ----- Forwarded message from Poul-Henning Kamp ----- > > Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 13:27:27 +0000 > From: Poul-Henning Kamp > To: wkt at tuhs.org > Subject: A cameo by UNIX in BSTJ > > Some months ago I faced a flight from Denmark to NZ and back again, > so I bought a Kobo eBook reader and reformatted the entire BSTJ to fit > the screen. > > That gave me about 100k "pages" to read, plenty for my NZ-flights > and a large number of otherwise wasted moments since then. Highly > recommeded. > > Recently I came over what I belive is the first mention of UNIX in BSTJ. > > We all know about the v57i6, July-August 1978 "UNIX Time-Sharing System" > issue, but it transpires that UNIX made a cameo two years earlier > in an article about compression-schemes for TeleFax: > > www3.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol55-1976/articles/bstj55-10-1539.pdf > > Enjoy, > > Poul-Henning > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > phk at FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com