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?
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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.
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On Saturday, October 14th, 2023 at 8:19 PM, Mary Ann Horton <mah@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.
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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 eBay https://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-1947580163 https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1980-bell-laboratories-unix-1947578308 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.