All, I've spent some time working on the UTZoo Usenet Archive postings
from https://archive.org/download/utzoo-wiseman-usenet-archive
I've reformatted each group's postings into mbox format so I could run
them through the mailman archive tool. The results are here:
http://www.tuhs.org/Usenet/ You can now browse by group/year/month/thread.
I'll drop an index.html file in there tomorrow with a description of
each newsgroup. There are still some blemishes to fix up, as the archiver
failed to recognise the headers on some articles and they end up "posted"
in February 2016.
Other newgroups archives are here: https://archive.org/search.php?query=usenet. I might pull out some other Unix relates groups (aus.sources etc.) and
add them. Are there any other Usenet archives around?
Cheers, Warren
P.S If anybody is still trying to recover the old 2.11BSD patches, you may
find some of them lurking in http://www.tuhs.org/Usenet/comp.bugs.2bsd/
Hi,
I successfully made SIMH VAX-11/780 emulator run 32V, 3BSD and 4.0BSD.
Details are on my web site (thogh rather tarse):
http://zazie.tom-yam.or.jp/starunix/
Enjoy!
Naoki Hamada
nao(a)tom-yam.or.jp
Hi all, does anybody know of on-line historical Usenet archives that
I can link to, especially if they have unpacked articles (visible
subject lines would be better)?
What newsgroups are relevant? net.v7bugs, comp.sources.unix,
comp.sources.misc, net.sources, mod.sources, comp.sources.bugs?
What about platform or system-specific newsgroups?
I'll put the links here: http://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=publications:newsgroups
Thanks, Warren
P.S A good history of the legal side of Unix is here:
http://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=publications:theses
Does anybody have a working e-mail address for Henry Spencer? I've
tried his "zoo.utoronto..." address but the box is refusing SMTP
connections (from me, at least). Alternatively, could someone e-mail
him and see if he would be interested in joining the TUHS list?
And ditto for any other old Unix users!
Cheers, Warren
Can someone here ID the mystery person?
Embarrassingly, CHM has the person misidentified as well.
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Need help identifying a photo
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:46:45 +0000
From: Ceruzzi, Paul <CeruzziP(a)si.edu>
To: members(a)lists.sigcis.org <members(a)lists.sigcis.org>
There is a famous photo on Wikimedia commons, of what purports to be Ken
Thompson & Dennis Ritchie in front of a PDP-11, presumably working on
UNIX. The problem is that the seated person doesn’t look like either of
them. And he is clean-shaven. Could it be Bjarne Stroustrup? Does anyone
recall seeing T&R w/o facial hair? Any help in tracking this down would
be much appreciated! The photo has been reprinted in many places, and
I’d like to track this down before I inadvertently propagate an error.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ken_Thompson_(sitting)_and_Dennis_R…
Paul E. Ceruzzi
Curator, Division of Space History
National Air and Space Museum
MRC 311, PO Box 37012
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC 20013-7012
www.ceruzzi.com <http://www.ceruzzi.com>
ceruzzip(a)si.edu <mailto:ceruzzip@si.edu>
202-633-2414
[I feel like I'm spamming my own list]
I've tried to make contact with people in the UK that might have
copies of the UKUUG and EUUG newsletters: Peter Collinson,
Sunil Das, Bruce Anderson. No luck with this.
There are newsletters back to 1992 at http://www.ukuug.org/newsletter/
but I'm after the ones in the 1970s and 1980s. The current secretary
doesn't know about the earlier newsletters.
Who else can I contact?
Cheers, Warren
> we can probably substitute part of the db(1) man page from 1st
> Edition Unix for the missing page A7
That would be appropriate--properly documented, of course.
doug
Among the papers of the late Bob Morris I have found a
Unix manual that I don't remember at all--a draft by
Dennis Ritchie, in the style of (but not designated as)
a technical report with numbered sections and subsections.
It does not resemble the familiar layout of the numbered
editions. Besides the usual overview of kernel and shell,
it describes system calls and some commands, in a layout
unrelated to the familiar man-page style. Detailed
reference/tutorial manuals for as, roff, db and ed
are included as appendices.
The famous and well-justified claim that "UNIX contains a numer
of features very seldom offered even by larger systems"
appears on page 1.
A little poking around tuhs.org didn't reveal a copy of
this document. Does anybody know of one somewhere else?
Doug
> Dr. Wang invented the core memory at IBM BTW
Wang did make a magnetic-core storage device (a 2-core-per-bit
shift register) but Jay Forrester's core memory, first installed
on MIT's Whirlwind computer in 1953, is the one that actually
saw use and very quickly dominated the market.
Doug