20 May
2023
20 May
'23
6:31 a.m.
Matt.
Does the CB man page match the PWB 3 version? I may be mixing something
up in my memory so I ask because I seem to remember there were some
differences between some scripts that came from different places ( We did a
lot with graphics in the cad group and when we had tools that came from
other places it was often graphics that bit us which is why I think that
sticks in my mind). I’ll have to try looking at the version we had at UCB
in a bit.
As for doc the only thing I remember was a man page for the tool.
Clem
On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 4:19 PM segaloco via TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
The earliest documentation I can spot is the bs(1) man
page dated
November, 1979 in the CB-UNIX 2.3 Manual (although the page itself is
tagged CB-UNIX 2.1.)
This appears to be the same lineage as what we see in the commercial PWB
releases, however, the earliest backstop I have on that is June, 1980 with
3.0. PWB 1.0 contains no such page, and unfortunately the situation right
around 1979 is still a bit fuzzy re: PWB 2.0 and UNIX/TS. That said, the
preface to the CB-UNIX 2.3 manual (which is also a 2.1 page from 1979) pays
no credit to the UNIX/TS 1.1 nor PWB 2.0 manuals the way the PWB 3.0
preface does, so perhaps bs(1) started in CB?
Looking forward, this utility persists up til SVR2, but is gone as of the
SVR3 globe-with-UNIX-lines manual series. Curiously, it was also omitted
from the 3B20 PWB 4.1 manual, but the 5.0 and subsequent System V 1 and 2
manuals don't have a hardware-exclusivity masthead mark, so this was likely
made portable/ported to 3B20 sometime around '81. In any case, none of the
man pages in any of these manuals indicate any memoranda or other papers in
the SEE ALSO. Doesn't mean one doesn't exist, but points to the likelihood
that the manpage is really all you get documentation-wise. Even the BTL
versions don't mention any papers.
In any case, that's what I could turn up, there is a bs(1) manpage in the
following versions:
- 1979 - CB-UNIX 2.1
- 1980 - PWB 3.0/System III
- 1981 - PWB 4.x (Non 3B20)
- 1981 - CB-UNIX 2.3 (unmodified from 2.1)
- 1982 - PWB 5.0
- 1983 - System V
- 1984 - System V Release 2
Hope that helps. All of these save the 4.x version should be in various
places around. I don't remember seeing anything outrageously different
between 3.0 and 5.0, so it very well may be that the 4.x manpage could be
easily synthesized with a diff, but I don't have a physical page to prove
anything.
- Matt G.
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On Friday, May 19th, 2023 at 8:06 AM, KenUnix <ken.unix.guy(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi.
Was any documentation ever done for the basic interpreter
that was on System-V?
Things like allowed keywords or special keywords.
Thanks
Ken
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