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- This directory contains a set of documents related to 1st Edition UNIX,
- along with a working 1st Edition UNIX kernel which was restored from the
- documents.
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- Documents
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- The man*.pdf PDF documents here are the scanned manual pages to 1st Edition
- Unix, taken from Dennis Ritchie's web page:
- http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/1stEdman.html
- A copy of the above HTML file is also cached here, but most of the
- hyperlinked documents are missing.
-
- UNIX_ProgrammersManual_Nov71.pdf is a file copied from
- http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/bellLabs/unix/.
- It appears to be an aggregate of most of the PDF documents noted above.
-
- The file PreliminaryUnixImplementationDocument_Jun72.pdf, also from
- bitsavers, appears to be a study of the internals of the 2nd Edition UNIX kernel
- by Ted Bashkow, done around June to September 1972. We have no other information
- about the document. Also from the same place on bitsavers is
- Kernel_Subroutine_Descriptions_Mar72.pdf, which appears to be a preparatory
- document which formed the basis of Bashkow's study.
-
- Working Kernel
- --------------
- A small group of people, led by Tim Newsham and Warren Toomey, have scanned the
- kernel listing from the above document in, and successfully restored the kernel
- to working order, using the executables from the `s2' tape in ../1972_stuff.
- The team's web page is http://code.google.com/p/unix-jun72/. Here you will
- find a snapshot copy of their work along with some filesystem images:
- images-20080625.tgz and svntree-20081216.tar.gz
-