From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, 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 6692c5a9 for ; Sat, 13 Apr 2019 18:36:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 131A194977; Sun, 14 Apr 2019 04:36:01 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A04949492D; Sun, 14 Apr 2019 04:35:23 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 4A2689492D; Sun, 14 Apr 2019 04:35:21 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mercury.lcs.mit.edu (mercury.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.122]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A6AE09492B for ; Sun, 14 Apr 2019 04:35:20 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 11178) id 8B95918C0B3; Sat, 13 Apr 2019 14:35:19 -0400 (EDT) To: tuhs@tuhs.org Message-Id: <20190413183519.8B95918C0B3@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 14:35:19 -0400 (EDT) From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) Subject: Re: [TUHS] Paper discussing Unix boot process? X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" > From: Warren Toomey > That's all I knew at the time :-) :-) I used nroff/troff for a bit, but I didn't like it; I don't recall why, but I suspect I wasn't using people's macro packages, which probably made it more difficult to use. My favourite was SCRIBE, but it alas seems to have died. > From: Dan Cross >> the original Western Electric copies are not troff'ed and run through >> a typesetter ... > Indeed. Even the mid-90's Peer-to-Peer press reprinting appears to be, > roughly, a facsimile of line printer output. ... > Interestingly, the title page appears to be approximately original and > is typeset. I finally located my copy of the reprint (I'd been using it to help Fritz Mueller find a problem in his RK11C, and it wasn't in its normal place), and comparing it with my 'samizdat' set (which came from a set owned by Lincoln-Sudbury High School - they actually had an -11 running V6, I helped their computer person, I forget his name now, with it), I can confirm that: - The reprint does mostly reproduce the exact page images from the original (which was indeed, mostly line-printer out), except that the original does not have the typeset chapter/section header pages. It's possible that the pages in the reprint are a new printing, but if so, they have exactly matched not only the layout (not too hard) of the original, but also the font. - In a couple of places (e.g. Contents, pg. 1; Preface, pg. 1; Chapter One, pg. 1) "UNIX" has been replaced by "UNIX*" (different font), and at the bottom of the page has been added "* UNIX is a Trademark of Bell Laboratories", again in a different font. - The typeset 'Source Code' title page is in the original; the copy in the reprint is an exact image, except that the upper-case "This information ... Written permission of Bell Laboratories" section is not in the original, which says instead at that place: "This document may contain information covered by one or more licenses, copyrights and non-disclosure agreements. Circulation of this document is restricted to holders of a license for the UNIX Software System from Western Electric. All other circulation or reproduction is prohibited." - The typeset 'Commentary' title page is different in my samizdat First Edition original; it's a copy of the other title page, except that the second para is replaced by the first sentence of the 'Commentary' title page of the reprint, and of course the title is different from the other volume. Noel