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From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Cc: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Early supported UNIX manual
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2022 21:26:52 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221223022652.AD41018C079@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)

    > From: Phil Budne

    > The cover page has:
    > ...
    > Upper right corner:
    > PA-1C300-01
    > Section 1
    > Issue 1, January 1976
    > AT&TCo SPCS

I have a very similar manual; I got it a long time ago, and no longer recall
how I came by it. Minor difference: mine is for PD-1C301-01, and at the
bottom of the page, it says "ISSUE 1 1/30/76", followed by a prominent trade
secret notice.

TUHS has a copy of this version, here:

  https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/USDL/unix_program_description_jan_1976.pdf

The README file in that directory:

  https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/USDL/README

speculates that "this is PWB/1.0" but admits "this has not yet been
confirmed". It's not PWB1, it's stock V6. If you look at the writeup of
sys1$exec(), on pg. 39 of the PDF, you'll see it describing how arguments are
copied into a disk buffer; that right there is the tip-off. In PWB1 (whose
source we do have):

  https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=PWB1/sys/sys/os/sys1.c

you'll see that PWB1 accumulates the arguments in a chunk of swap space.
V6 _does_ use a disk buffer for this:

  https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V6/usr/sys/ken/sys1.c

So this is for V6.

	Noel

             reply	other threads:[~2022-12-23  2:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-23  2:26 Noel Chiappa [this message]
2022-12-23  4:32 ` Phil Budne
2022-12-23  7:52   ` arnold
2022-12-23  9:09   ` Jonathan Gray
2022-12-23 18:04     ` Phil Budne
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-12-22 18:52 [TUHS] " Phil Budne
2022-12-22 19:51 ` [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-22 21:44   ` Phil Budne
2022-12-22 21:55     ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-24  3:30     ` Jonathan Gray
2022-12-24  8:58       ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-24 10:30         ` Jonathan Gray
2024-01-07  7:03 ` Jonathan Gray
2024-01-07 10:38   ` Al Kossow
2024-01-07 15:27     ` Phil Budne
2024-01-07 17:21       ` segaloco via TUHS

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