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From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy)
Subject: [TUHS] "Edition 0" manual
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 20:55:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201511240155.tAO1tap2016965@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> (raw)

Among the papers of the late Bob Morris I have found a
Unix manual that I don't remember at all--a draft by
Dennis Ritchie, in the style of (but not designated as)
a technical report with numbered sections and subsections.
It does not resemble the familiar layout of the numbered
editions. Besides the usual overview of kernel and shell,
it describes system calls and some commands, in a layout
unrelated to the familiar man-page style. Detailed
reference/tutorial manuals for as, roff, db and ed
are included as appendices.

The famous and well-justified claim that "UNIX contains a numer
of features very seldom offered even by larger systems"
appears on page 1.

A little poking around tuhs.org didn't reveal a copy of
this document. Does anybody know of one somewhere else?

Doug



             reply	other threads:[~2015-11-24  1:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-24  1:55 Doug McIlroy [this message]
2015-11-24  2:57 ` Warren Toomey
2015-11-24  3:55   ` arnold
2015-11-24  6:41 ` Random832
2015-11-28 23:24 ` [TUHS] Scan of " Warren Toomey
2015-11-29  2:01   ` Warren Toomey
2015-11-29 14:31     ` Clem cole
2015-11-29 20:21   ` Christian Neukirchen
2015-11-29 20:40     ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2015-11-29 21:45       ` arnold
2015-11-30  4:02   ` John Cowan
2015-11-30  4:26     ` Dave Horsfall
2015-12-26 14:09   ` Warren Toomey
2016-01-26 23:15     ` Warren Toomey
2016-01-26 23:46       ` Warren Toomey
2015-11-24 22:40 [TUHS] " Doug McIlroy
2015-11-25  5:08 Doug McIlroy
2015-11-25 15:44 ` Larry McVoy

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