[TUHS] UNIX NEWS July 16, 1975 Special Issue

[TUHS] UNIX NEWS July 16, 1975 Special Issue

[Jonathan Gray]

The scans of UNIX NEWS John Gilmore provided are appreciated
but the July 16 1975 "special issue" is very difficult to read:
tuhs/Documentation/Usenix/Early_Newsletters/19750716-unix-news-special-issue.pdf
tuhs/Documentation/Usenix/Early_Newsletters/19750716-unix-news-special-issue-darker.pdf

Hendrik Jan Thomassen shows the copy sent to Nijmegen in:
From UNIX to Linux, a time lapse of 45 years
T-Dose 2016
https://youtu.be/boahlBmc-NY?t=2434

A transcription from the video:

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Circulation 49			July 16, 1975			Special Issue
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	The contents of this "special issue" will be repeated in the normal
July issue to be mailed the last week of July.

			NEW  SYSTEM  AVAILABLE

	The Sixth Edition - June 1975 of the UNIX system is now available
for distribution to licensees.  Commercial users should contact Western
Electric for details.  Academics can receive the new system for a service
fee of $150.00.  Normal distribution is on 800 bpi - 9 track tape.  You
need not send a tape.  Just a check for $150.00 addressed to:

			C. W. Christ, Jr.
			Room 6A312
			Murray Hill, NJ 07974

The tape contains a single file which extracts to 3 RK-packs or equivalent.
These contain:
		pack0)	The system except for /usr/source
		pack1)	/usr/source
		pack2)	Documentation in machine readable form

Those who require distribution on RK-packs should send two or three packs
along with their checks.  The package also includes one hard-copy of each
of the 19 documents.

	Among the new "goodies" are:

		1)	Separate I and D space for the resident monitor on
			11/45s and 11/70s
		2)	Huge files (up to 16 megabytes)
		3)	A preprocessor for structured Fortran
		4)	TMG
		5)	A preprocessor for DC, with arbitrary precision
		6)	Many fixes and rewrites of system programs from "as"
			to "c"
		7)	Much improved comments embedded in system source
		8)	More graceful death on running out of resources and
			other crashes

				UNIX  NEWS

	At the users' meeting in New York on June 18 it was decided that the
UNIX NEWS will be irregular in format but regular in mailing.  We will try to
be in the mails by the last day of each odd month.  Where, as in this case,
a special issue is warranted we will mail it and include the contents also
in the regular mailing.

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			Address Correspondence to
Prof. M. Ferentz  Physics Dept.    Brooklyn College of CUNY  Brooklyn, NY 11210
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