6 Jan
2024
6 Jan
'24
12:12 p.m.
Hi Matt,
Whew. I'm tapped out.
Thank you very much for this very awesome work you just did!
Goodness gracious did the situation lead to a little
rabbit hole
with the USG/PWB line:
Someone else (whoever is more interested in this line) will have to
thank you for this portion of the work, but the parts I am happiest
for are these:
The V7 and 4.2BSD pages are closer than the V7 and V7
HRW Revised edition.
[...]
The V7 and 4.2BSD material appears to originate from the same plate,
although the V7 and V7 revised are noticeably different. For instance,
note the change in size of the blot square.
Thank you for confirming all of my hypotheses here! Thus it appears
that:
1) 1983 HRW version of V7 manual is not "the real thing", instead that
Holy Original status belongs to the ringed binder version;
2) All non-Berkeley supplementary docs in 4.2BSD Usenix print are from
the same plates as Holy Original V7 docs, thus the scans uploaded
to archive.org by Ms. Erica Fischer can serve as a perfect reference
for exactly how those Holy Original docs looked, for those of us
who don't have a physical copy of that Holy Original to look at.
Once again, thank you very much for this very awesome work!
M~