From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 8faec044 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2019 01:31:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id EA86C94817; Sat, 14 Sep 2019 11:31:43 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48B969478E; Sat, 14 Sep 2019 11:31:19 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 0F52C9478E; Sat, 14 Sep 2019 11:31:16 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 2801 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Sat, 14 Sep 2019 11:31:15 AEST Received: from nb3.reedmedia.net (nb3.reedmedia.net [71.19.148.35]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 53D8F93D23 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2019 11:31:15 +1000 (AEST) Received: from [47.185.49.132] (helo=reedmedia.net) by nb3.reedmedia.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1i8wAz-0002KF-5y for tuhs@tuhs.org; Sat, 14 Sep 2019 00:44:34 +0000 Received: from reed@reedmedia.net by reedmedia.net with local (mailout 0.17) id 11982-1568421865; Fri, 13 Sep 2019 19:44:27 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 19:44:25 -0500 (CDT) From: reed@reedmedia.net X-X-Sender: reed@t1.m.reedmedia.net To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (NEB 202 2017-01-01) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Subject: [TUHS] a book (was Re: PWB vs Unix/TS) X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" There needs to be a book with stuff like this. There is no Unix history book that I have ever seen with the depth of information in threads like this and others on TUHS. It would be a huge project and hard to tell if there would me more than just recognition and intrinsic rewards for the effort -- but maybe that is enough. (As an example, I have spent hundreds if not thousands of hours researching a small subset: Berkeley Unix history. Attempted to contact hundreds of historical participants. Interviewed near 100 people; most by email, but some in person or by phone -- even postal mail! Building a massive collection of historical data. Read over 30 physical books covering very small parts of the story. Watched many videos (and notes). Getting documents scanned and sent to me. It is a very detailed effort -- such as a single long chapter on the Virtual Vax/UNIX / London/Reiser / Babaoglu story with 168 citations or the single chapters on the official unofficial patchkits, lawsuit, etc. -- and there is nothing in this field to compare it too. I have over 243 bibtex entries already and 215 citations left to add to my .bib file. During that time, I have published six other books, some written from scratch. Some have suggested I use Kickstarter or similar as a financial incentive to finish it off.) Since the Unix story is so huge, a first volume could be up through System III, for example, but maybe that is too much. Anyone know of anyone writing a thorough Unix history book? Does it make sense to use a kickstarter? I may bring up in a different thread, but I am presenting about Unix history at Dallas Ft. Worth UNIX Users Group soon. They are planning to have two meetings (different months) dedicated to the history (50th anniversary). Jeremy C. Reed p.s. Sorry to mention this, but time is running out: $ grep -i decease /home/reed/book/bsd-history/PEOPLE | wc -l 17 pps. My other chapters: beginning.tex:\chapter{In the beginning ...} 2bsd.tex:\chapter{Second Berkeley Software Tape} 3bsd.tex:\chapter{Welcome to Virtual Vax/UNIX} 2bsd-part2.tex:\chapter{2BSD becomes an operating system} 4bsd.tex:\chapter{4BSD} 43bsd.tex:\chapter{4.3BSD -- The Internet Server} 2bsd-part3.tex:\chapter{The 16-bit 2BSD continues} 43bsd-part2.tex:\chapter{To open source BSD} commercial.tex:\chapter{Commercial Unixes using BSD} 44bsd.tex:\chapter{4.4BSD} bsdi.tex:\chapter{BSDI} 386bsd.tex:\chapter{386BSD Part 1} lawsuit.tex:\chapter{Lawsuit} patchkit.tex:\chapter{The official unofficial patchkits} netbsd.tex:\chapter{NetBSD} freebsd.tex:\chapter{FreeBSD} 386bsd-part3.tex:\chapter{386BSD Part 2} bsdi-part2.tex:\chapter{BSDI part 2} openbsd.tex:\chapter{OpenBSD} netbsd-part2.tex:\chapter{NetBSD -- Part 2} dragonfly.tex:\chapter{DragonFly BSD} 3bsd-license.tex:\chapter{3BSD Software Agreement (1979)} 4bsd-license.tex:\chapter{4BSD Software Agreement (1980)} ----------------------- echo Ohl zl obbx uggc://errqzrqvn.arg/obbxf/csfrafr/ | \ tr "Onoqrsuvxzabcefghl" "Babdefhikmnoprstuy"