Peter Salus’s book is pretty good and what he has actuate. 

Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite.

> On Sep 13, 2019, at 8:44 PM, reed@reedmedia.net wrote:
>
> There needs to be a book with stuff like this. There is no Unix history
> book that I have ever seen with the depth of information in threads like
> this and others on TUHS.  It would be a huge project and hard to tell if
> there would me more than just recognition and intrinsic rewards for the
> effort -- but maybe that is enough.
>
> (As an example, I have spent hundreds if not thousands of hours
> researching a small subset: Berkeley Unix history. Attempted to contact
> hundreds of historical participants. Interviewed near 100 people; most
> by email, but some in person or by phone -- even postal mail! Building a
> massive collection of historical data. Read over 30 physical books
> covering very small parts of the story. Watched many videos (and notes).
> Getting documents scanned and sent to me. It is a very detailed effort
> -- such as a single long chapter on the Virtual Vax/UNIX / London/Reiser
> / Babaoglu story with 168 citations or the single chapters on the
> official unofficial patchkits, lawsuit, etc. -- and there is nothing in
> this field to compare it too. I have over 243 bibtex entries already and
> 215 citations left to add to my .bib file. During that time, I have
> published six other books, some written from scratch. Some have
> suggested I use Kickstarter or similar as a financial incentive to
> finish it off.)
>
> Since the Unix story is so huge, a first volume could be up through
> System III, for example, but maybe that is too much.
>
> Anyone know of anyone writing a thorough Unix history book?
>
> Does it make sense to use a kickstarter?
>
> I may bring up in a different thread, but I am presenting about Unix
> history at Dallas Ft. Worth UNIX Users Group soon. They are planning to
> have two meetings (different months) dedicated to the history (50th
> anniversary).
>
> Jeremy C. Reed
>
> p.s. Sorry to mention this, but time is running out:
>
> $ grep -i decease /home/reed/book/bsd-history/PEOPLE | wc -l
>      17
>
> pps. My other chapters:
>
> beginning.tex:\chapter{In the beginning ...}
>
> 2bsd.tex:\chapter{Second Berkeley Software Tape}
>
> 3bsd.tex:\chapter{Welcome to Virtual Vax/UNIX}
>
> 2bsd-part2.tex:\chapter{2BSD becomes an operating system}
>
> 4bsd.tex:\chapter{4BSD}
>
> 43bsd.tex:\chapter{4.3BSD -- The Internet Server}
>
> 2bsd-part3.tex:\chapter{The 16-bit 2BSD continues}
>
> 43bsd-part2.tex:\chapter{To open source BSD}
>
> commercial.tex:\chapter{Commercial Unixes using BSD}
>
> 44bsd.tex:\chapter{4.4BSD}
>
> bsdi.tex:\chapter{BSDI}
>
> 386bsd.tex:\chapter{386BSD Part 1}
>
> lawsuit.tex:\chapter{Lawsuit}
>
> patchkit.tex:\chapter{The official unofficial patchkits}
>
> netbsd.tex:\chapter{NetBSD}
>
> freebsd.tex:\chapter{FreeBSD}
>
> 386bsd-part3.tex:\chapter{386BSD Part 2}
>
> bsdi-part2.tex:\chapter{BSDI part 2}
>
> openbsd.tex:\chapter{OpenBSD}
>
> netbsd-part2.tex:\chapter{NetBSD -- Part 2}
>
> dragonfly.tex:\chapter{DragonFly BSD}
>
> 3bsd-license.tex:\chapter{3BSD Software Agreement (1979)}
>
> 4bsd-license.tex:\chapter{4BSD Software Agreement (1980)}
>
>
>
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