From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 18936 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2023 03:34:08 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (2600:3c01:e000:146::1) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 10 Dec 2023 03:34:08 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 268B043D25; Sun, 10 Dec 2023 13:34:01 +1000 (AEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tuhs.org; s=dkim; t=1702179241; h=from:from:reply-to:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding:list-id:list-help: list-owner:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-post; bh=5lQeswUmfhcSGs/3fe+pyFoAX91GONy571ThbpCb35w=; b=0pTenfShWb1qeTJ1R6jqFYgbsOwvTW2CfwsXaghZdt3r9Ie+a6fI3gNp0AHKRoU/dGP370 B588rfKJxaPgHeExL5n7kxL198lUW7xjIu7XRYHaE5i83VGydRh7LypsdC1uXLTvt8NLze 44Z4uz2eiqFQ9vgGltBH+RZv41WIXgY= Received: from mail-40137.protonmail.ch (mail-40137.protonmail.ch [185.70.40.137]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0E95542444 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2023 13:33:53 +1000 (AEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=protonmail.com; s=protonmail3; t=1702179230; x=1702438430; bh=5lQeswUmfhcSGs/3fe+pyFoAX91GONy571ThbpCb35w=; h=Date:To:From:Subject:Message-ID:Feedback-ID:From:To:Cc:Date: Subject:Reply-To:Feedback-ID:Message-ID:BIMI-Selector; b=fq0YpBn3/H4qnjD75AoJllLKDlkp6AMzdbEqganMMxV1Y28N6/dIhiWtcsNWBzcic ZCWgTpbRl8KB5g0bWFLQsU7A3u1fWw0Cq2+hF+jW84b4yAC+6Zjl/ELDkET99FAs6i dbAPeK6qXGKRF48kMfQoujals++Yf0MIJ3Ig0Fn6IcCwg53FsfSvWztFSpzkfB4ThC Z0TCSFuWBXsLYJ3L6JdbMB5/KJiaAMBRH65ht7MK6vkcKooOoa+e+5mVdU08XMDg6K tkKV8rGM2LuXp50FAxoPf7B6qjqCtkI6lbb6tFeHNQLtg71IhrnZUUb8KeA6YDUOiS 77if6YKygyZlA== Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2023 03:33:47 +0000 To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Message-ID: Feedback-ID: 35591162:user:proton MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID-Hash: AJZT4PJQYNEY3TK3UN2XIETKWC3AXB3V X-Message-ID-Hash: AJZT4PJQYNEY3TK3UN2XIETKWC3AXB3V X-MailFrom: segaloco@protonmail.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Some Wiki Documentation of...Documentation List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: From: segaloco via TUHS Reply-To: segaloco After much saying I would and never getting around to it, I've finally star= ted filling out a bit of documentation on the various UNIX manuals I've bee= n tracking down, fleshing out history around, tracing bibliographic referen= ces though, etc etc. https://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=3Dpublications:manuals Thus far I've got the research and CB pages filled out from available infor= mation, and PWB/commercial up through about '85-'86, give or take some thin= gs. I apologize in advance if I've omitted your favorite piece of trivia o= r got something wrong, please suggest corrections in any areas needing them= , or even better, a Wiki is a communal resource so with Warren's OK, I'm su= re you can also make contributions. Most of the pictures are from my own library, although I've added a few oth= ers from thing around the net. There are links to various documents covere= d, TUHS content where most appropriate, a few archive.org and bitsavers lin= ks here and there. I don't intend to include links to any documents after = System V's initial 1983 run, just pictures of covers for ease of identifica= tion. I've already mentioned a few times but I highly encourage contributions. I= intend to do another round at this sometime soon and round out at least th= e BSD stuff and later System V. If anyone else has photographs or document= s they think should be in these articles and you don't want to do the Wiki = part yourself, feel free to send me stuff and I'll make sure it gets put up= there. Finally, some reflection on the path here. "What was UNIX System IV" was o= ne of those questions that plagued my mind for a long time, much before I k= new much else about the history of UNIX. Not a crucial question by any mea= ns, but it was one of those little mysteries I always wanted to know more a= bout, which is what then lead me to trying to find Release 4.0 documents an= d all that. Of course, that then lead to the rabbit hole of continuing to = turn stuff up, I never imagined I'd actually be successful in trying to tur= n up more info on that version, let alone then continuing to find little pi= eces of history and slot in missing parts of stories. Along the way I've l= earned more about this darn operating system than I ever intended on learni= ng and now feel net gain in several areas of my study. Plus, all this Bell= System proximity is largely responsible for my interests in telephony as o= f late, and may come full circle in the gear I got for telephone experiment= s helping me resurrect this poor UNIX PC I've got sitting on the floor righ= t now. I don't know what I would've been doing with so much of my free tim= e the past few years otherwise, especially these colder months. Hope folks enjoy the commentary! - Matt G. P.S. Combing over things for this, I've found a few more pieces of the UNIX= /TS puzzle. The details are in the Release 3.0 section of the PWB/Commeria= l page linked above. Short of it is there are some interesting "leaks" of = the name "UNIX/TS" into Release 3.0 documentation, inconsistently between t= he sources on the UNIX tree and the physical document I recently obtained.