From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 5319d689 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2018 23:55:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id D85EAA1A90; Sat, 29 Sep 2018 09:55:27 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17D8DA1A6D; Sat, 29 Sep 2018 09:55:15 +1000 (AEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=tuhs.org; s=dkim; t=1538178920; bh=09oFkFI+xBRz6+JkqYDd6TxdS+rKspKMrwc1XtgFRiE=; h=Date:From:To:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:List-Id: List-Unsubscribe:List-Archive:List-Post:List-Help:List-Subscribe: Cc:From; b=BHZRWw8V1D6qZSFxiOCA7XuIYpP0KWz+tg0GgffKsY2lMDW5oU3IAUG3ACR3q4CdN nqMMx5Hdil+Jp0tsvKzWhzfioyCvjpLyECMY1p1vKhuLbChRj/lQc3M6PkEE42UtON GD2fHb/LcDJsa+tfbn7bstuvnuwmWbmbfxR64yos= Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 34D8FA1A6C; Sat, 29 Sep 2018 09:55:12 +1000 (AEST) Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2018 09:55:12 +1000 From: Warren Toomey To: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" Message-ID: <20180928235512.GB24118@minnie.tuhs.org> References: <20180928230444.GB17171@minnie.tuhs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Subject: Re: [TUHS] Original Unix SOSP paper? X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 05:20:53PM -0600, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote: > Warren Toomey asks on Sat, 29 Sep 2018 09:04:44 +1000 for > a copy of the original 1972/73 paper on The UNIX TIME-SHARING SYSTEM > that was published at the SOSP Proceedings of the fourth ACM > symposium on operating system principles. > > The URL in this entry from unix.bib works for me: Ah, but: > remark = "This electronic edition of this paper is a reprint of > the version appearing in The Bell System Technical > Journal 57 no. 6, part 2 (July--August 1978). In turn, > that was a revised version of an article that appeared > in Communications of the ACM, 17, No. 7 (July 1974), > pp. 365--375. That article was a revised version of a > paper presented at the Fourth ACM Symposium on > Operating Systems Principles, IBM Thomas J. Watson > Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, October > 15--17, 1973. Most of the differences between versions > occur between the C. ACM version and the BSTJ printing; > we incorporated updated numbers and material on > portability.", so not the original SOSP paper or the original 1974 CACM paper :-) However, it's yet another version of the paper. I've spent some time tracking down the various "versions" of this paper. So far, I know of: + the mid-1971 draft, available at https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/McIlroy_v0/UnixEditionZero-Threshold_OCR.pdf + a later version which is in the Nokia Bell Labs archives, which I haven't been able to get my hands on + the SOSP presentation, still unclear if there was an actual paper + the 1974 CACM paper + the version in 6th Edition Unix, available at https://minnie.tuhs.org//cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V6/usr/doc/unix + the 1978 BSTL version cited above Are there any others that people know about that I've missed? I would like to do some work on how the content changed over time. The result would be, for me, an interesting paper to read but somehow I think the readership base would be limited :-) Cheers, Warren