On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Nelson H. F. Beebe <[email protected]> wrote: > This new paper on the history of Unix may be of interest to > some readers; getting the PDF from the DOI may require an > IEEE digital library membership (either personal or institutional): > > @String{j-IEEE-ANN-HIST-COMPUT = "IEEE Annals of the History of Computing"} > > @Article{Toomey:2010:FEU, > author = "Warren Toomey", > title = "{First Edition Unix}: Its Creation and Restoration", > journal = j-IEEE-ANN-HIST-COMPUT, > volume = "32", > number = "3", > pages = "74--82", > month = jul # "\slash " # sep, > year = "2010", > CODEN = "IAHCEX", > DOI = "http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MAHC.2009.55";, > ISSN = "1058-6180", > abstract = "Until recently, the earliest versions of the Unix > operating system were believed to have been lost > completely. In 2008, however, a restoration team from > the Unix Heritage Society completed an effort to > resurrect and restore the first edition Unix to a > running and usable state from a newly discovered > listing of the system's assembly source code.", > fjournal = "IEEE Annals of the History of Computing", > }
This paper as published by Usenix may be the same information. In any case, it is easier to get a copy. http://www.usenix.org/event/usenix09/tech/full_papers/toomey/toomey.pdf carl -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego [email protected] _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
