17 Oct
2023
17 Oct
'23
12:42 a.m.
My vol 2C is comb bound with the Bell logo on the front and back cover.
It matches what Matt describes below: Date November 1980, hand-written
part 55 (Curses) on TOC, Curses included.
I personally wrote "4.1 BSD Vol 2C" on the spine of my comb version, and
"4.1 BSD Vol 1" on the spine of the other comb bound, which were clearly
a set. (We were expected to use the V7 vol 2a and 2b, as they were not
changed.) Vol 1's title page is dated June, 1981". The preface of Vol 1
adds 3 paragraphs beginning "This update to the fourth distribution of
November, 1980 provides support for the VAX 11/750 and for the full
interconnect architecture of the VAX 11/780. ..." This paragraph is not
dated but would seem to be from June 1981.
I don't recall who ran the set of manuals in Bell Labs, but it wasn't
done at Columbus. Someone was kind enough to send me a set.
I'm inclined to believe Matt is right about vol 2C not being updated
except by pencil and the Curses section.
Interestingly, I also have a "UNIX 3.0 Vol 1" comb bound manual with the
same style of cover, same personal spine label, probably done at the
same time, likely by the same group. I don't recall who but I'll
speculate it was someone at MH or WH. Possibly Brian Redman?
Thanks,
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On 10/14/23 22:49, segaloco wrote:
One thing worth noting, I think, not sure, but I think
the contents
suggest the 4BSD rather than 4.1BSD set, I can't tell for certain
because I actually can't locate a 4.1BSD doc folder with the Volume 2C
intro and TOC. The physical article (as well as a Acco binder copy I
also have) both indicate November 1980 (as opposed to 4.1BSDs June
1981.) Curiously, the comb bound one has one extra entry in the TOC
written in by hand: the curses paper. Indeed it is the last in the
comb bound manual and not present in my Acco-bound copy.
Not conclusive of anything but just an observation, I can't track down
an authoritatively-sourced copy of the doc/vmunix folder where the
original of the TOC lives in 4BSD. The 4BSD typesetter sources of the
TOC match what is in both copies I have, minus the hand-written curses
inclusion.
It very well could be the Volume 2C version of the TOC stopped being
maintained around this time as I likewise don't see the doc/vmunix
folder in 4.1c or 4.2. Either way, just something I found odd, I can't
100% confirm parity with what would be in /usr/doc on a standard
4.1BSD distro, I'll have to go digging and see what I have though, I
feel like I archived away some 4.1BSD stuff I found somewhere that had
some delta with what is in the UNIX tree. Not going to draw any firm
conclusions until I put eyes on doc sources though. That said, it
wouldn't surprise me if the manual amounts to more of a "4.0b", being
the 4BSD set with some incremental changes towards 4.1. But again,
nothing to back that up, just my initial impression.
- Matt G.
------- Original Message -------
On Saturday, October 14th, 2023 at 8:19 PM, Mary Ann Horton
<mah(a)mhorton.net> wrote:
I checked my bookshelf - my 4.1BSD manuals are
the same Bell Labs
printing as the two Worthpoint links below. AFAIK they are a vanilla
printing of the soft copy from the 4.1 BSD tape.
If there is any value to documenting this further, please let me know.
Thanks,
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who went through hell to become the person she is today.”
*- Monica Helms, creator of the transgender flag*
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*- Laura L. Engel, Intl. Memoir Writers Assn.*
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On 10/9/23 19:11, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2023 at 04:17:36PM +0000, segaloco via TUHS wrote:
>> Spotted this and ordered it on eBayhttps://www.ebay.com/itm/235246689392
>>
>> After the link is a pretty nondescript comb-bound 4.1BSD User's
>> Manual Volume 2C. I don't think I've seen comb-bound issues prior
>> to the USENIX 4.2BSD set that introduced the Beastie cover. Does
>> anyone know if there was a limited run produced by the Berkeley
>> folks themselves or if this is more likely a one-off someone printed
>> for themselves? Either way, this is an exciting find for the
>> completeness of my library, this would leave 3BSD as the only VAX
>> BSD version I don't have any Volume 2C papers in my bookshelf from.
>> If this does prove to be issue from Berkeley or someone directly
>> adjacent to them, the next thing I hope to figure out is if this
>> has Volume 1 and Volume 2A/2B companions. I find myself curious
>> because the 4BSD Volume 2C I have was following a plain Jane Version
>> 7 Volume 2A/2B rather than also 4BSD 2A/2B, so whoever curated that
>> set either got them that way or clobbered V7 and 4BSD docs together
>> themselves.
> Brian Ehrmantraut's photo has two 4.1BSD volumes:
> https://www.facebook.com/groups/internetoldfarts/posts/722465582733996/
> Link from when the Wollongong Group version of the commentary was
> mentioned here.
>
> There was a Bell Laboratories printing of the 4.1BSD manuals.
> https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1981-bell-laboratories-unix-users-19…
> https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1980-bell-laboratories-unix-19475783…
>
> A list of documents included with the distribution can be found in
> doc/vmunix/cover*. Below text from 4.1a.tar.gz included in the CSRG
> Archives.
>
> July 8, 1981
>
>
> This is a full distribution kit for the second release of
> the Fourth Berkeley software tape, known as 4.1bsd. The
> package you received should have contained:
>
> 1) Either a 2400' 1600 bpi magnetic tape or two RK07 disk
> cartridges containing the basic system software; this
> is the bootstrap distribution media. A second 2400'
> 1600 bpi tape or a third RK07 disk cartridge contains
> additional material beyond the basic system on the
> first tape (INGRES, source for documents in the
> manuals, bit mapped fonts, etc.)
>
> 2) Documents titled ``Installing and operating 4.1bsd'',
> ``Bug fixes and changes in 4.1bsd'', ``Changes to the
> kernel in 4.1bsd'', and ``Hints on configuring VAX
> systems for UNIX''
>
> 3) A two sided copy of volume 1 of the programmer's
> manual.
>
> 4) A single sided, reproduction-quality copy of Volume 1
> of the programmer's manual for the system.
>
> 5) A copy of a document describing fsck.
>
> 6) A two sided copy of volumes 2a and 2b of the
> programmer's manual.
>
> 7) A single sided, reproduction-quality, copy of Volume 2c
> of the programmer's manual for the system.
>
> 8) 2 Vi Reference Cards and a master for reproducing
> cards.
>
> 9) Three documents describing the Berkeley Network.
>
> 10) Two documents on the internals of the Pascal system.
> manual and a new table of contents for volume 2c.