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[pups] Minnie mail down over the weekend

by Warren Toomey

The machine which hosts this mailing list is scheduled to be down over the Australian weekend due to power problems. It should be up on Monday morning Australian time. Warren

22 years, 6 months

Re: [TUHS] C reference manual

by norman＠nose.cs.utoronto.ca

To forestall those who haven't looked: the good news is that the papers from Volume 2 of the manual were included in /usr/doc on the V7 tape; the bad news is that the C Reference Manual was omitted. Here is /usr/doc/cman in its entirety: Sorry, but for copyright reasons, the source for the C Reference Manual is not distributed. Presumably the problem was that the Reference Manual was published as part of the a real book in 1978. I forget just what Tony was after in the first place, but maybe some of the stuff on Dennis Ritchie's home page will help: http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/index.html In particular the Sixth Edtion version of the C Reference Manual is there. Norman Wilson Toronto ON

22 years, 6 months

Re: [TUHS] C reference manual

by Ian King

I have an original (in print) of the C reference manual from Unix 6th Ed, as part of a multipart binder titled "Documents for Use With the Unix Timesharing System", as well as the "UNIX Programmer's Manual", which is a print copy of the man pages. I could probably scan the C ref in my copious spare time, if you're not in a hurry. Warren, do you want to archive stuff like this? -- Ian -----Original Message----- From: Tony Finch [mailto:dot@dotat.at] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 1:10 PM To: tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org Cc: dot(a)dotat.at Subject: [TUHS] C reference manual I'm looking for a copy of the C reference manual from some time between the 6th Edition (1975) and the first version that came with 4.3BSD (1986). The stuff in the TUHS archive mostly seems to be missing the documentation sets, or in the case of the earlier BSDs they are ommitted for copyright reasons. There are some tutorials dating from about 1979 but they aren't much use. Any help would be appreciated. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <dot(a)dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ DOGGER: NORTHEAST 6 TO GALE 8 BACKING NORTHWEST 4 OR 5. RAIN OR SHOWERS. MODERATE OR GOOD. _______________________________________________ TUHS mailing list TUHS(a)minnie.tuhs.org http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs

22 years, 6 months

Re: [TUHS] C reference manual

by helbig＠informatik.ba-stuttgart.de

Hallo, Most, if not all, of the V6-docs was distributed with V6 as troff sources. At http://www.ba-stuttgart.de/~helbig/os/ you'll find postscript versions of these docs. Have fun, Wolfgang

22 years, 6 months

Re: Weinberger stencil? (was: rtm)

by norman＠nose.cs.utoronto.ca

This is certainly non-technical UNIX history, which is not to say it isn't interesting. I can sharpen up a few details of Dennis's account. Peter was already a department head when I first visited the Labs in early 1984. I believe his face was already a favourite test image for various graphics experts, but the cult of the face didn't really get started until the following year. In particular I think it was in the summer of 1985 that Tom Duff thought of the deathstar transform (turning a picture into variable- width horizontal stripes, as the AT&T logo to a highlighted sphere). Certainly it was later that year that the much-bigger-than-life image appeared on the water tower: my calendar file still says sep 16 btl water tower 1985 Peter was still a department head at that time; he didn't climb further into management until about 1990. As I recall, the water tower remained painted for a couple of days. A two-man team from the Physical Plant department finally covered it over: one man in overalls wielding paint, another in suit and tie watching to be sure no trace remained. Lest people get the wrong idea, Peter took no offense at the overuse of his face. In fact a few years later he agreed to have a plaster cast made. Someone (Duff?) then made a latex positive from the plaster negative, intending to digitize it somehow into a three-dimensional model. I don't know if that ever happened, but I did borrow the latex one day, used it to generate another negative in ice, and cast a large chocolate truffle which I then set out in the UNIX Room (as the group's common terminal room was called) for all to enjoy. That may have been the only really interesting use of the 3d face. In any case the plaster cast was presented to me when I left the Labs in 1990, and I still have it, though I haven't done anything with it since. There were also some smaller stencils made of the same deathstar- Peter face. (In fact I have it on good authority that the big one was made by projecting one of the smaller ones on a wall.) When Bell Labs bought a Cray X-MP in 1986 or 1987 (my records aren't that complete), one of our group made several visits to Cray to get a head start on a special network interface we would need. He took along one of the small stencils and put a few Peter faces on panels that were normally covered up when the machine was running. (The Cray was to be shared by Research and the Comp Center, and the Comp Center were a bit stuffier.) To everyone's surprise, when the machine arrived it bore no extra decorations. Presumably Cray shipped the painted system to another customer; we never found out who. The Computing Science Research Center was a fun place to work. Norman Wilson Toronto ON

22 years, 6 months

Re: Weinberger stencil? (was: rtm)

by Dennis Ritchie

Lehey wondered: > .... can > you shed any light on the "Peter Weinberger stencil" incident? ... > Somebody came across the idea of > making a large stencil of his face in death-star like technology, > and used it to paint an image of him on a nearby water tower. > Allegedly the costs were charged to Peter's department. > Some years later, this stencil arrived in Greg Rose's office in > Australia from an anonymous sender. Greg has a suspicion who the > sender was, but no proof, so he doesn't want to comment. He gave it > to our own Warren Toomey, who still has it in his garage. > At some point, Peter Salus suggested that the image was of Rob Pike... I could recover some of the dates, but not accurately from memory. Weinberger was promoted, first to department head, then to being director of a newly-created but next-door center, then to our own executive director. This would have been mid-late 80s, early 90s. He was being groomed, it appears. Shortly before trivestiture, 1994ish, he went to the business part of AT&T, possibly in preparation for coming back to a higher management position at the Labs. When the Lucent/AT&T split occurred he was somewhat caught on the AT&T side. He ended up leaving AT&T and going to a financial quant company. His image was particularly striking, and was used to kid him in various ways, e,g, as a default image in mail icons. The image rendering his face with the Deathstar styling was done by Tom Duff, and it appeared, for example, on T-shirts worn publically at venues like Usenix and elsewhere. Other versions of it appear inscribed in concrete now buried beneath floors at the Labs. There is a bitmap version (rendered in 1cm magnets) of the full image, not death-starred, high on a steel wall above a landing on a nearby stairwell. The large stencilled image of the Deathstar/PJW rendition did indeed appear suddenly one day on a water tower; it must have been about 10 feet tall. Kernighan had a photo of it, and Gerard Holzmann just scanned it: http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/pix/watertower.jpg It was painted over quite rapidly, a couple of days at most. (The tower itself is now gone, though not because of this.) The image was certainly not of Rob Pike. After this happened, a voucher was pinned up on a communal corkboard, claiming expenses for several cans of blue spray paint. The voucher was signed by one G. R. Emlin, a fictitious personage with his (later her) own history. Attached to it was a handwritten note from our then Executive Director (Vic Vyssotsky) saying approximately as follows: Unfortunately, this voucher cannot be approved by me; I am not empowered to approve Real Estate improvements. If Mr. Emlin would like to arrange a transfer to the Building and Grounds department, I would be happy to assist. So: who did it? If Greg Rose suspects certain aviation-inclined buddies, I in turn think his suspicions are likely to be well-founded. I managed to retrieve the image used to create the stencil; it's now linked-to near the bottom of http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/10thEdMan/v2pix.html Dennis

22 years, 6 months

C reference manual

by Tony Finch

I'm looking for a copy of the C reference manual from some time between the 6th Edition (1975) and the first version that came with 4.3BSD (1986). The stuff in the TUHS archive mostly seems to be missing the documentation sets, or in the case of the earlier BSDs they are ommitted for copyright reasons. There are some tutorials dating from about 1979 but they aren't much use. Any help would be appreciated. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <dot(a)dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ DOGGER: NORTHEAST 6 TO GALE 8 BACKING NORTHWEST 4 OR 5. RAIN OR SHOWERS. MODERATE OR GOOD.

22 years, 6 months

rtm

by A.P.Garcia

I just recently picked up a copy of a book that's been out for some time, _Cyberpunk_ by Katie Hafner and John Markoff. The last chapter is about Robert T. Morris, Jr. and the worm incident (which in itself, I think, is an important event in Unix history). The book contains some interesting details, including some Unix folklore that I haven't seen anywhere else. For instance, RTM Sr. had a terminal at home, as did other members of the CSR group at Bell Labs. So a number of their kids had accounts! RTM Sr. comes off as a very likeable fellow, btw. At the Atlanta Linux Showcase in 1999, Norm Schryer gave a keynote speech, in which he told an amusing anecdote about Morris Sr. (I may be slightly off on some details; such is oral history): Morris, he said, was the kind of guy who always liked to tinker with things, and if an object had buttons, Morris just had to push them. In fact, sometimes Morris was just a little too quick with his fingers. On one side of a machine room was the light switch, and on the other side was the power to the machine. On at least one occasion, you guessed it -- Morris hit the wrong switch. Some people hung a disk pack that got ruined around his neck, and someone put up a big sign as a reminder: "THIS IS THE WEST WALL!" :-)

22 years, 6 months

Re: rtm

by Dennis Ritchie

Garcia is correct to praise the Hafner/Markoff account of the worm incident. There were some details about the kids' accounts and exploits that Markoff decided to elide; by the time he wrote that chapter he had become rather sympathetic with the Morris family. In 1995 another big incident occurred: the exploitation of the SYN TCP-connection takeover attack (Mitnick etc.) Markoff got another front-page NYT story out of this (and a book with Shimomura). I sent mail to Markoff at the time of the newspaper coverage reminding him that RTM had discovered the basic attack in 1985 (see CSTR 117 at http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr.html ); while here during a summer. Markoff replied in part, >Interesting how often RTM figures, one way or another, in your front-page >stories, and of course the [Cyberpunk] book.... > > Dennis Ritchie yes, this is true. you know i sat there on sunday for about ten minutes and thought about whether i should include rtm in my story - it would obviously have spiced it up. i finally decided not to on the grounds that 1. i have done enough to mythologize him for one decade 2. he is probably entitled not to be dragged through all this again. i still wonder whether i did the readers a disservice... Incidentally, "RTM Sr." was (while here) "rhm" by login name, and always called Bob; I don't think he actually has a middle name (at least I don't know it.) I think it's like Harry S Truman. RTM is called Robert, and never used Jr. About > [Bob] Morris, he said, was the kind of guy who always liked to tinker with > things, and if an object had buttons, Morris just had to push them. > In fact, sometimes Morris was just a little too quick with his fingers. > On one side of a machine room was the light switch, and on the other > side was the power to the machine. > On at least one occasion, you guessed it -- Morris hit the wrong switch. > Some people hung a disk pack that got ruined around his neck, and someone > put up a big sign as a reminder: "THIS IS THE WEST WALL!" I suspect that we may be dealing with the "Schryer filter" regarding some of the details. Norm S. was right about Bob's being an aggressive investigator and fiddler, but I don't connect the west-wall sign with Morris in particular, but my memory could be failing too. Norman Wilson might have been around for advent of the sign. In the event, it had more to do with circuit breakers labelled in small print "east wall" and "west wall" and someone choosing the wrong one. Dennis

22 years, 6 months

RE: [pups] Ultrix-3.1 boot tape inside the PDP-11 distribution directory

by Fred N. van Kempen

Gregg, > Question 1) Has anyone actually followed the instructions and > description of same, found inside the readme file found in the > directory? Yes. They are a cut-and-paste log of my actual screens, although I can't remember exactly what was in the file. > Question 2) Was this on actual hardware? Or inside the Simh simulator? > Or even with one version of E11? I did installs on real hardware (MicroPDP-11/23 and MicroPDP-11/83), and on Ersatz-11 (V3.0) for DOS. > In my case this will be inside the Simh simulator, and I am basically > working straight from the beginning. If all goes well, I'll move it to > the E11 one. Ultrix-11 runs fine on SimH, with the "downs" that because SimH does not do detailed and correct CPU emulation, Ultrix gets confuzed every now and then, which does not happen with E11. I am preparing a new (V3.2) release of Ultrix-11 which has major changes, including: - full system regeneration off single source tree - full RAxx support - addition of VTserver, TDU and compress - compressed manual pages and documentation - Y2K support (not just date(1) ;-) The installation procedure has also changed to a more modern style. I don't have much time right now, so progress is slow. The above is "done", though. If you need help with Ultrix-11, pse contact me off-list. --fred

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