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From: Jonathan Gray <jsg@jsg.id.au>
To: segaloco <segaloco@protonmail.com>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Some AT&T Promotional Material/Pricing from Early 80s
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2023 15:26:22 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZH7Dfo4kvha4lzad@largo.jsg.id.au> (raw)
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On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 03:04:53AM +0000, segaloco via TUHS wrote:
> Finally, in the same folder is also a nice stack of UNIX summary
> documents spanning different versions.  There are summaries for
> PWB, Mini-UNIX, V7, and 32V.  Additionally, there is a document
> "Proposal to Provide VAX UNIX system support at Berkeley" by Bob
> Fabry.  A quick internet search didn't turn up a PDF of this, so I
> have to wonder if it's preserved somewhere.  If not, it will be.

Is that the proposal mentioned in
https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/kirkmck.html
"In the fall of 1979, Bob Fabry responded to DARPA's interest in moving
towards Unix by writing a proposal suggesting that Berkeley develop an
enhanced version of 3BSD for the use of the DARPA community."

predating "The New ARPA VAX UNIX Project"
https://archive.org/details/login_january-1981/page/12/mode/2up

CSRG TR/4: Proposals for enhancement of UNIX on the VAX
https://archive.org/details/csrgtr4/mode/2up

      reply	other threads:[~2023-06-06  5:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-06  3:04 [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2023-06-06  5:26 ` Jonathan Gray [this message]

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