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[173.48.42.254]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id n20sm13616856qtp.69.2019.09.14.15.46.26 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 14 Sep 2019 15:46:26 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) From: Clem cole X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (16G102) In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 18:46:25 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: To: reed@reedmedia.net Subject: Re: [TUHS] a book (was Re: PWB vs Unix/TS) 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: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" Peter Salus=E2=80=99s book is pretty good and what he has actuate. =20 Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite.= =20 > On Sep 13, 2019, at 8:44 PM, reed@reedmedia.net wrote: >=20 > There needs to be a book with stuff like this. There is no Unix history=20= > book that I have ever seen with the depth of information in threads like=20= > this and others on TUHS. It would be a huge project and hard to tell if=20= > there would me more than just recognition and intrinsic rewards for the=20= > effort -- but maybe that is enough. >=20 > (As an example, I have spent hundreds if not thousands of hours=20 > researching a small subset: Berkeley Unix history. Attempted to contact=20= > hundreds of historical participants. Interviewed near 100 people; most=20 > by email, but some in person or by phone -- even postal mail! Building a=20= > massive collection of historical data. Read over 30 physical books=20 > covering very small parts of the story. Watched many videos (and notes).=20= > Getting documents scanned and sent to me. It is a very detailed effort=20 > -- such as a single long chapter on the Virtual Vax/UNIX / London/Reiser=20= > / Babaoglu story with 168 citations or the single chapters on the=20 > official unofficial patchkits, lawsuit, etc. -- and there is nothing in=20= > this field to compare it too. I have over 243 bibtex entries already and=20= > 215 citations left to add to my .bib file. During that time, I have=20 > published six other books, some written from scratch. Some have=20 > suggested I use Kickstarter or similar as a financial incentive to=20 > finish it off.) >=20 > Since the Unix story is so huge, a first volume could be up through=20 > System III, for example, but maybe that is too much. >=20 > Anyone know of anyone writing a thorough Unix history book? >=20 > Does it make sense to use a kickstarter? >=20 > I may bring up in a different thread, but I am presenting about Unix=20 > history at Dallas Ft. Worth UNIX Users Group soon. They are planning to=20= > have two meetings (different months) dedicated to the history (50th=20 > anniversary). >=20 > Jeremy C. Reed >=20 > p.s. Sorry to mention this, but time is running out: >=20 > $ grep -i decease /home/reed/book/bsd-history/PEOPLE | wc -l=20 > 17 >=20 > pps. My other chapters: >=20 > beginning.tex:\chapter{In the beginning ...} >=20 > 2bsd.tex:\chapter{Second Berkeley Software Tape} >=20 > 3bsd.tex:\chapter{Welcome to Virtual Vax/UNIX} >=20 > 2bsd-part2.tex:\chapter{2BSD becomes an operating system} >=20 > 4bsd.tex:\chapter{4BSD} >=20 > 43bsd.tex:\chapter{4.3BSD -- The Internet Server} >=20 > 2bsd-part3.tex:\chapter{The 16-bit 2BSD continues} >=20 > 43bsd-part2.tex:\chapter{To open source BSD} >=20 > commercial.tex:\chapter{Commercial Unixes using BSD} >=20 > 44bsd.tex:\chapter{4.4BSD} >=20 > bsdi.tex:\chapter{BSDI} >=20 > 386bsd.tex:\chapter{386BSD Part 1} >=20 > lawsuit.tex:\chapter{Lawsuit} >=20 > patchkit.tex:\chapter{The official unofficial patchkits} >=20 > netbsd.tex:\chapter{NetBSD} >=20 > freebsd.tex:\chapter{FreeBSD} >=20 > 386bsd-part3.tex:\chapter{386BSD Part 2} >=20 > bsdi-part2.tex:\chapter{BSDI part 2} >=20 > openbsd.tex:\chapter{OpenBSD} >=20 > netbsd-part2.tex:\chapter{NetBSD -- Part 2} >=20 > dragonfly.tex:\chapter{DragonFly BSD} >=20 > 3bsd-license.tex:\chapter{3BSD Software Agreement (1979)} >=20 > 4bsd-license.tex:\chapter{4BSD Software Agreement (1980)} >=20 >=20 >=20 > ----------------------- >=20 > echo Ohl zl obbx uggc://errqzrqvn.arg/obbxf/csfrafr/ | \ > tr "Onoqrsuvxzabcefghl" "Babdefhikmnoprstuy"