6 Jun
2023
6 Jun
'23
11:26 a.m.
On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 03:04:53AM +0000, segaloco via TUHS wrote:
Finally, in the same folder is also a nice stack of
UNIX summary
documents spanning different versions. There are summaries for
PWB, Mini-UNIX, V7, and 32V. Additionally, there is a document
"Proposal to Provide VAX UNIX system support at Berkeley" by Bob
Fabry. A quick internet search didn't turn up a PDF of this, so I
have to wonder if it's preserved somewhere. If not, it will be.
Is that the proposal mentioned in
https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/kirkmck.html
"In the fall of 1979, Bob Fabry responded to DARPA's interest in moving
towards Unix by writing a proposal suggesting that Berkeley develop an
enhanced version of 3BSD for the use of the DARPA community."
predating "The New ARPA VAX UNIX Project"
https://archive.org/details/login_january-1981/page/12/mode/2up
CSRG TR/4: Proposals for enhancement of UNIX on the VAX
https://archive.org/details/csrgtr4/mode/2up