7 Jun
2025
7 Jun
'25
9:45 a.m.
My tattered, original, blue BSTJ from 1978, the first UNIX issue would me my prized UNIX
artifact.
I got it in 1980. The day after it arrived my wife and father-in-law went to some fancy
shopping places in Atlanta as a treat, but I sat in the car reading the issue.
I remember reading Ken's paper on how Unix worked internally and not understanding a
thing. A few years later, after things like our Kernel Club, a meeting every Wednesday
night of a few friends where we would read and discuss sections of the Seventh Edition
source, I re-read the article and thought ti was clarity itself. Something the text
doesn't change but we do.
I read it so much it fell apart. It now lives in a ring binder, its pages have been
punched. I've not stopped using
Brantley Coile
On Jun 6, 2025, at 2:09 PM, segaloco via TUHS
<tuhs(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
As someone who has been quite attentive to the documentation situation with UNIX,
I've managed to build out a pretty appreciable library of historic works. Among my
most treasured bits are my 3B20S Release 4.1 manual and Bell Labs copies of the
Lions's Commentary.
What do folks have around that you're particularly thrilled to have among your
UNIX-y possessions?
- Matt G.