[TUHS] Re: early Unix papers, from Jim Joyce

The following papers stick out to me as papers that haven't surfaced in any of the research I've done (not exhaustive, but what stuck out to me): The Programmer's Workbench - A Machine for Software Development - Is this distinct from the Mashey papers? Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language - This sounds fun, not hard UNIX info, but fun A Typesetter-Independent TROFF - A ditroff-specific paper? Can't say I've seen such a thing, would be interested in this one. I know someone (can't recall name/email) in the GROFF mailing list seemed particularly excited about ditroff information that could be gleaned from the UNIX/TS 4.0 docs, this may be their golden carrot. PIC - A Graphics Language for Typesetting - The list mentions a March 1982 revision. This would post-date the UNIX/TS 4.0 version, although there is the Research V10 version of the paper. However, an initial flip through the V10 Volume 2 manual reveals no specific last-modify date. That would ultimately trace back to https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V8/usr/doc/pic . I can't find the roff sources for V9 or V10 of this paper though, I've just got the physical book for V10. The PIC Graphics Language - Another PIC paper? FSCK - The Unix File System Check Program - This paper shows up in UNIX/TS document sets but not research. I'd be curious of the specific date on this one, the latest one we have afaik is 1981, UNIX/TS 4.0. Combining Data Bases: National and Cartographic Files - Not explicitly UNIX perhaps? Either way, I like maps, I'd be curious what is going on here The UNIX System: Making Computers Easier To Use - Perhaps a transcript of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvDZLjaCJuw ? C Reference Manual - Curious on the date, there are many revisions scanned UNIX Documentation Guide - BSD "Documentation Roadmap" perhaps? I have a 4BSD paper compilation from some university in Australia, seems to just be a subset of C and Fortran related papers though, I wonder if there's correlation between this and the intro paper in that set... The Unix Programming Environment - Kernighan and Mashey? Does this bear any relation to the book authored with Rob Pike? I feel like I've seen this title in passing but am definitely curious. A Walk Through AWK - Somewhere between the original AWK paper and the AWK book? PARTS - A System for Assigning Word Classes to English Text - Probably the paper underlying descriptions of parts in later WWB literature. Writing Tools - The STYLE and DICTION Programs - Ditto, I'd be curious how much of what became trade-book WWB/DWB documentation started as Bell memoranda and if a full manual could be compiled from just memoranda. Route Finding in Street Maps by Computers and People - More maps work by Bell, didn't know they did stuff in this area I would absolutely be interested in throwing my hat in the ring on preservation, can pay for shipping to and fro and scanning would be gratis. That said, if someone expects a certain DPI, OCR, etc. then you can pay someone, I volunteer my resources at the capacity I can volunteer them. If someone else can do the whole package, I'll also happily donate towards that. - Matt G. ------- Original Message ------- On Monday, November 7th, 2022 at 2:16 PM, Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org> wrote: