> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:01:50 -0700 > From: Carl Lowenstein <[email protected]>
> 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): >> DOI = "http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MAHC.2009.55";, >> 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.", > 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 I took at look at the two offerings. The IEEE page lists all the references in that paper, a much longer list than the one that appears at the end of the Usenix paper. I'm not quite ready to shell out $19 for a PDF, so I have no other way to judge the contenct, but that tells me that the IEEE paper is likely to have a good deal more than the other. Rich _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
