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From: a.phillip.garcia@gmail.com (A. P. Garcia)
Subject: [TUHS] Yet Another Kernel Description Document
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:50:09 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFCBnZsyZkeJ85WBcutUkVec_H7CEGkowVOhghpjj0M3gc3E5A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120220203034.GA10432@minnie.tuhs.org>

nice. any details on the provenance, like those you shared regarding
the 1st edition kernel documents a couple months ago?

On 2/20/12, Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> wrote:
> All, I've just received from Poul-Henning Kamp a document entitled
> "UNIX Program Description", dated January 1976 and written by the
> UNIX Support Group. It contains detailed descriptions of the functions
> inside a Unix kernel. Given the date and the USG origin, I'm guessing
> that the system described is PWB/1.0. Can anybody confirm this at all?
>
> The URL is
> http://minnie.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Distributions/usdl/unix_program_description_jan_1976.pdf
> but I'll move it if it turns out not to be about PWB.
>
> I love how new documents and artifacts keep appearing! Thanks phk.
>
> Cheers,
> 	Warren
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-21  1:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-20 20:30 Warren Toomey
2012-02-21  1:50 ` A. P. Garcia [this message]
2012-02-21  1:53   ` Warren Toomey

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