On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Rich Alderson <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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
Thanks to the wonders of university memberships, I was able to get the IEEE copy of the paper. It's 3 pages longer and has a much larger section on the actual history of Unix, comparisons to Multics, etc. It seems a bit more polished as well. John -- "With MPI, familiarity breeds contempt. Contempt and nausea. Contempt, nausea, and fear. Contempt, nausea, fear, and .." -- Ron Minnich _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
