Congrats. I got this manual some years ago. Yes, it contains some
references to commands used apparently to manage the use of phone and comm
services by users of, I assume, AT&T services.
Nice day,
Sergio
El vie, 2 dic 2022 6:04, segaloco via TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org> escribió:
Exciting development in the process of finding lost
documentation, just
sealed this one on eBay:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/385266550881?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-12…
After the link is a (now closed) auction for a Western Electric 3B20S UNIX
User's Manual Release 4.1, something I thought I'd never see and wasn't
sure actually exited: print manuals for 4.x.
Once received I'll be curious to see what differences are obvious between
this and the 3.0 manual, and this should be easy to scan given the comb
binding. What a nice cover too! I always expected if a 4.x manual of some
kind popped up it would feature the falling blocks motif of the two starter
package sets of technical reports, but the picture of a 3B20S is nice. How
auspicious given the recent discussion on the 3B series. I'm particularly
curious to see what makes it specifically a 3B20S manual, if that's
referring to it only having commands relevant to that one or omitting any
commands/info specific to DEC machines.
Either way, exciting times, this is one of those things that I had
originally set out to even verify existed when I first started really
studying the history of UNIX documentation, so it's vindicating to have
found something floating around out there in the wild. Between this and
the 4.0 docs we now should have a much clearer picture of that gulf between
III and V.
More to come once I receive it!
- Matt G.