18 Jun
2023
18 Jun
'23
1:07 a.m.
On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 07:37:55PM +0000, segaloco via TUHS wrote:
Hello, I've come across something in a bookshelf
up at the local
university that I have thus far been unsuccessful at locating online.
It's a binder amongst other 4.3BSD binders like the reference manuals
and supplementary documents but this one is labeled "User Contributed
Software (UCS)". I can't find any of these in the doc folder of
the 4.3BSD copies in the archive nor can I find a scan of the
originals. There is an overview at the start listing the following
packages: B, X, ansi (VAX tape tools), apl, bib, courier, cpm,
dipress, dsh, emacs, enet, help, hyper, icon, jove, kermit, mh,
mkmf, mmdf, news, notes, npl00, patch, path alias, rcs, rn, spms,
sumacc, sunrpc, tac, tools, umodem, and xns.
Al Kossow scanned the Mt Xinu version including that page
https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_mtXinuMTXI_25102566/page/n1/mode/2up
https://bitsavers.org/pdf/mtXinu/MT_XINU_UCS_Apr_1986.pdf
There are a preponderance of man pages as well as some focused
papers for B, SPMS, the Icon programming language, and MMDFII. I
didn't scribble down more notes before heading home because I figured
this was something I'd find on page one of an internet search, but
thus far have had no luck. If I don't turn up a digital copy soon
I might just have to make another trip up there soon with my flatbed
scanner. In any case I left a note too hoping whoever the curator
of that bookshelf is (it was in some club room) might have the scoop
on those binders, if they're left over from some long gone 4.3BSD
installation in the EE/CS department and if they might have some
siblings in other bookshelves nearby.
- Matt G.