29 Sep
2018
29 Sep
'18
5:55 a.m.
On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 05:20:53PM -0600, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
Warren Toomey <wkt(a)tuhs.org> asks on Sat, 29 Sep
2018 09:04:44 +1000 for
a copy of the original 1972/73 paper on The UNIX TIME-SHARING SYSTEM
that was published at the SOSP Proceedings of the fourth ACM
symposium on operating system principles.
The URL in this entry from unix.bib works for me:
Ah, but:
remark = "This electronic edition of this
paper is a reprint of
the version appearing in The Bell System Technical
Journal 57 no. 6, part 2 (July--August 1978). In turn,
that was a revised version of an article that appeared
in Communications of the ACM, 17, No. 7 (July 1974),
pp. 365--375. That article was a revised version of a
paper presented at the Fourth ACM Symposium on
Operating Systems Principles, IBM Thomas J. Watson
Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, October
15--17, 1973. Most of the differences between versions
occur between the C. ACM version and the BSTJ printing;
we incorporated updated numbers and material on
portability.",
so not the original SOSP paper or the original 1974 CACM paper :-)
However, it's yet another version of the paper.
I've spent some time tracking down the various "versions" of this paper.
So far, I know of:
+ the mid-1971 draft, available at
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/McIlroy_v0/UnixEditionZ…
+ a later version which is in the Nokia Bell Labs archives, which I
haven't been able to get my hands on
+ the SOSP presentation, still unclear if there was an actual paper
+ the 1974 CACM paper
+ the version in 6th Edition Unix, available at
https://minnie.tuhs.org//cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V6/usr/doc/unix
+ the 1978 BSTL version cited above
Are there any others that people know about that I've missed?
I would like to do some work on how the content changed over time.
The result would be, for me, an interesting paper to read but somehow
I think the readership base would be limited :-)
Cheers, Warren