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=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 24757 invoked from network); 14 Jul 2023 05:32:08 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (2600:3c01:e000:146::1) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 14 Jul 2023 05:32:08 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A30642A9C; Fri, 14 Jul 2023 15:32:00 +1000 (AEST) Received: from lechuck.jsg.id.au (jsg.id.au [193.114.144.202]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9927A42A9B; Fri, 14 Jul 2023 15:31:46 +1000 (AEST) Received: from largo.jsg.id.au (largo.jsg.id.au [192.168.1.43]) by lechuck.jsg.id.au (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPS id f1201a9c (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO); Fri, 14 Jul 2023 15:31:43 +1000 (AEST) Received: from localhost (largo.jsg.id.au [local]) by largo.jsg.id.au (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPA id 793e228c; Fri, 14 Jul 2023 15:31:43 +1000 (AEST) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 15:31:43 +1000 From: Jonathan Gray To: Warren Toomey Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Message-ID-Hash: 3GINC7WRD6HFRYXCEY7QO43E46G5PV22 X-Message-ID-Hash: 3GINC7WRD6HFRYXCEY7QO43E46G5PV22 X-MailFrom: jsg@jsg.id.au 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 CC: tuhs@tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Some old DECtapes from Dennis Ritchie List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 02:57:06AM +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote: > On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 10:44:33AM +1000, Warren Toomey via TUHS wrote: > > All, way back when, Dennis sent me some DECtape images to look after. I've > > put some of them in the Unix Archive (the s1 and s2 tapes) as they contained > > Unix source code or binaries. The others I kept aside as they didn't contain > > Unix code, or they were potentially sensitive. > > > > Anyway, Angelo Papenhoff asked for any old tapes from the Labs that might > > contain fragments of B source code or B binaries. I passed the extra tapes > > on to him, and he has found some very interesting nuggets from the time > > period when B -> NB -> C. > > > > So, to help provide the context around Angelo's work, I've decided to put > > all the tapes that Dennis gave me here: > > > > https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Applications/Dennis_Tapes/ > > > > Cheers, Warren > > Thank-you to all involved. > > Interesting that this has a version of > "The UNIX Time-Sharing System" paper with timestamps close to the > SOSP presentation. > > UnixEditionZero-Threshold_OCR.pdf 1971 draft > > Symposium on Operating System Principles, October 15-17 1973 > proceedings only have an abstract The ACM online archive only has the abstract https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800009.808045 but google books shows fragments of more in searches https://books.google.com/books?id=TxNRAQAAIAAJ > > dmr_tapes/dmr2/tp/paper/p1 Nov 1973 > "about 20 installations have been put into service" > (same number given in fourth edition manual also dated Nov 1973) > "Files are named by sequences of eight or fewer characters" > > tuhs/Documentation/Papers/unix_cacm74.pdf July 1974 > "about 40 installations have been put into service" > "Files are named by sequences of 14 or fewer characters" > > tuhs/Distributions/Research/Dennis_v6/v6doc.tar.gz unix/p1 Jun 1975 > "about 100 installations have been put into service" DECUS: Proceedings of the Digital Equipment Computer Users Society 1977: Vol 3 Iss 5 https://archive.org/details/sim_digital-equipment-computer-users-society-transactions_1977_3_5 "about 250 installations have been put into service" tuhs/Documentation/Papers/BSTJ/bstj57-6-1905.pdf July/Aug 1978 "over 600 installations have been put into service" tuhs/Distributions/Research/Henry_Spencer_v7/v7.tar.gz usr/doc/cacm Jan 1979 "over 600 installations have been put into service"