I'd like to begin by thanking folks for their suggestions. I'd also like to express my awe and appreciation for Nelson Beebe's bibliographic work. That said, I am not now (and will likely never be) in a position to do anything similar for the documents in question, let alone scan and OCR them, etc. If someone wants to take on such a project, please let me know. However, as a small step along the way, I opened up the box and produced a rough list of the contents (see below). When I noticed version or date information, I noted it, but many of the documents are missing that sort of thing. So, YMMV. It appears that most of the items are copies of Unix Version 7 documents, printed at UC Berkeley (UCB). Some of the rest are a mix of photocopied articles from magazines (e.g., BSTJ, BYTE, Comm. ACM, Software--Practice and Experience). I assume that most of this content is readily available, but some may not be. In any case, the bibliographic info might be useful. Finally, there are assorted documents that were edited or produced at UCB. Some of these (especially the ones marked DRAFT) may be of historical interest. Anyway, please let me know if any of this sounds like it might be worth passing along... -r P.S. Careful Reader may notice a strong emphasis on text processing in this collection. Jim's research interests included the use of computers to analyze Middle English poetry. For example, the rhyme schemes allowed him to clarify the pronunciation of certain words. # Notes The documents are currently stored in manilla folders in a cardboard box. Folders are separated by bars (---) in the List. Folders are listed below in the order found in the box. Dates and "UNX x.y.z" notations are transcribed, when available. These notations appear to relate to UCB's "UNIX Documentation Guide". # List "The Programmer's Workbench -- A Machine for Software Development" Evan L. Ivie Comm. ACM; October, 1977 --- "Lint, a C Program Checker" S. C. Johnson UNX 12.2.3 July 26, 1978 --- "A Tour Through the Portable C Compiler" S. C. Johnson UNX 13.2.7 --- "UNIX Programming -- Second Edition" Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie UNX 2.2.3 November 12, 1978 --- "Some Applications of Inverted Indexes on the UNIX System" M. E. Lesk UNX 12.2.2 --- "Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language" Brian W. Kernighan July 18, 1981 --- "A TROFF Tutorial" Brian W. Kernighan --- "RATFOR -- A Preprocessor for a Rational Fortran" Brian W. Kernighan UNX 12.2.6 --- "Advanced Editing on UNIX" Brian W. Kernighan UNX 3.3.3 October 17, 1980 --- "Nroff / Troff User's Manual" Joseph F. Ossanna --- "A Typesetter-independent TROFF" Brian W. Kernighan --- "A Tutorial Introduction to the UNIX Text Editor" B. W. Kernighan --- "PIC -- A Graphics Language for Typesetting" "User Manual" Brian W. Kernighan Revised Edition; March, 1982 "PIC -- A Graphics Language for Typesetting" "User Manual" Brian W. Kernighan --- "Typesetting Mathematics -- User's Guide (Second Edition)" Brian W. Kernighan and Lorinda L. Cherry May 30, 1977 --- "A System for Typesetting Mathematics" Brian W. Kernighan and Lorinda L. Cherry Comm. ACM; March, 1975 --- "The PIC Graphics Language" --- "LEARN -- Computer-Aided Instruction on UNIX (Second Edition)" Brian W. Kernighan, Michael E. Lesk UNX 12.2.1 January 30, 1979 --- "UNIX Programming -- Second Edition" Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie November 12, 1978 --- "FSCK -- The Unix File System Check Program" T. J. Kowalski --- "Typing Documents on UNIX and GCOS: the -ms Macros for Nroff and Troff" M. E. Lesk October 8, 1976 "A Revised Version of -ms" (DRAFT) Bill Tuthill UNX 4.42 12/6/82 also includes a line printer listing ??? --- "Combining Data Bases: National and Cartographic Files" Michael E. Lesk October 26, 1981 --- "Lex - A Lexical Analyzer Generator" M. E. Lesk and E. Schmidt UNX 12.2.5 --- SED -- A Non-interactive Text Editor" Lee E. McMahon UNX 12.2.8 August 15, 1978 --- "Statistical Text Processing" L. E. McMahon, L. L. Cherry, and R. Morris BSTJ Vol. 57, No. 6; July-August, 1978 --- "A Tutorial Introduction to ADB" J. F. Maranzano, S. R. Bourne UNX 11.3.1 May 5, 1977 --- "The UNIX (tm) system: making computers easier to use" Samuel P. Morgan Bell Laboratories Record; December, 1978 --- "Password Security: A Case History" Robert Morris, Ken Thompson UNX 13.2.10 April 3, 1978 --- Uucp Implementation Description UNX 13.2.9 D. A. Nowitz UNX 13.2.9 October 31, 1978 --- "C Reference Manual" Dennis M. Ritchie --- "The Standard I/O Library" D. M. Ritchie E. M. Gould (local editing) March 27, 1978 --- "Classes: An Abstract Data Type Facility for the C Language" Bjarne Stroustrup Bell Labs CSTR No. 84 April 3, 1980 Revised August 14, 1981 --- "A Set of C Classes for Co-routine Style Programming" Bjarne Stroustrup Bell Labs CSTR No. 90 November 18, 1980 --- "UNIX Implementation" K. Thompson UNX 13.2.4 --- "UNIX Documentation Guide" Computing Services, UC Berkeley --- "Berkeley Software for UNIX on the VAX" "4.1bsd version of May, 1981" --- "Ex/Edit Command Summary (Version 2.0)" Computing Services, UC Berkeley August 29, 1979 --- "-ms Command Summary" (DRAFT 2 May 78) --- "UNIX Command Summary" Computer Center, UC Berkeley January 18, 1978 --- "Ex Reference Manual" "Version 1.1 -- November, 1977" William N. Joy CSD, EECS, USB November 26, 1977 --- "Experiences with the UNIX Time-sharing System" John Lions Software--Practice and Experience, Vol. 9, 702-709 (1979) --- "Writing Papers with NROFF using -ME" Eric P. Allman Electronics Research Laboratory, UCB May 13, 1978 --- "-ME Reference Manual" Eric P. Allman Electronics Research Laboratory, UCB May 13, 1978 --- "Writing NROFF Terminal Descriptions" Eric Allman Britton-Lee, Inc. --- "Bell's Lettres" Natalie Angier Discover; July, 1981 --- "Screen Updating and Cursor Management Optimization: A Library Package" Kenneth C. R. C. Arnold CSD, EECS, UCB 4th Berkeley Distribution --- "Design and Implementation of the Berkeley Virtual Memory Extensions to the UNIX Operating System" Ozalp Babaoglu, William Joy, Juan Porcar CSD, EECS, UCB December 2, 1979 --- "Data Structures Added in the Berkeley Virtual Memory Extensions to the UNIX Operating System" Ozalp Babaoglu, William Joy CSD, EECS, UCB November 23, 1979 --- "UNIX with Satellite Processors" Amnon B. Barak and Amos Shapir Software--Practice and Experience, Vol. 10, 383-392 (1980) --- "Development system interface expedited software design" Jim Bessemer Electronics Design; September 2, 1982 --- "LocalNet and UNIX" K. J. Biba, S. J. Leffler Sytek, Inc.; June, 1981 --- "Edit: A Tutorial" Ricki Blau, James Joyce Computing Services, UCB UNX 3.3.1 September, 1981 "Edit: A Tutorial" Ricki Blau, James Joyce Computing Services Division, Computing Affairs, UCB January, 1978 "Text Editing with UNIX" --- "Communicating with UNIX" Ricki Blau Computing Services, UCB UNX 1.3.1 September, 1981 --- "UNIX on a Micro" Cornelia Boldyreff SIGSMALL Newsletter, Vol. 7, No. 1; February, 1981 --- "Extending the Interprocess Communication Facility of UNIX for a Distributed Operating System" Sheng-Yang Chiu Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc. 27 July 1981 Revised: 31 July 1981 Request for Comments: DOS-8 --- "DEAFNET: A Distributed Communications Service for the Deaf" Earl Craighill SRI International May, 1980 --- Programmer's Workbench Papers Second International Conference on Software Engineering T. A. Dolotta, J. R. Mashey, D. W. Smith, M. H. Bianchi, J. L. Wood October 13-15, 1976 --- "The Programmer's Workbench" T. A. Dolotta, R. C. Haight, J. R. Mashey BSTJ; July-August, 1978 --- "A Comparison of the Programming Languages C and Pascal" Alan R. Feuer, Narain H. Gehani ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 14, No. 1; March 1982 --- "A Dual Processor VAX 11/780" George H. Goble, Michael H. Marsh School of EE, Purdue TR-EE 81-31; September, 1981 --- "The UNIX Operating System and the XENIX Standard Operating Environment" Robert B. Greenberg BYTE; June, 1981 --- "Growing, Pruning and Climbing Binary Trees with tiny-c" Les Hancock Dr. Dobb's Journal No. 36, Vol. 4, Issue 6; June/July 1979 --- "Implementing a tiny interpreter with a CP/M-flavored C" Les Hancock Dr. Dobb's Journal No. 41 --- "A Portable File Directory System" David R. Hanson Software--Practice and Experience, Vol. 10, 623-634 (1980) --- "Getting Acquainted with Ex: An Aid for Humanities Users" A Publication of The Old English Colloquium's Unix Project A. Hernandez January 1, 1979 --- "Some Facts and Fallacies about UNIX" Jim Isaak FORUM, Computer System News; January 18, 1982 --- "Operating systems confer new degree of sophistication on microprocessors" R. Colin Johnson Electronics; March 24, 1981 --- "UNIX - New Avenues in Research and Development" Robert E. Jones Hardcopy; February, 1982 --- "An Architecture for Interprocess Communication in UNIX" William Joy and Robert Fabry CSRG, EECS, UCB DRAFT of June 22, 1981 "Proposals for enhancement of UNIX on the VAX" William Joy and Robert Fabry CSRG, EECS, UCB July 21, 1981; Revised August 31, 1981 --- "4.2BSD System Manual" William Joy, Eric Cooper, Robert Fabry, Samuel Leffler and Kirk McKusick CSRG, EECS, UCB Draft of February 14, 1982 --- "An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi" William Joy CSRG, EECS, UCB April 2, 1979 --- "Berkeley Pascal User's Manual" William N. Joy, Susan L. Graham, Charles B. Haley CSD, EECS, UCB Version 1.1 - April, 1979 --- "Installing and Operating 4.1bsd" William N. Joy CSRG, EECS, UCB May 18, 1981 --- "Berkeley Pascal PX Implementation Notes" Version 1.1 - April, 1979 William N. Joy CSD, EECS, UCB March 30, 1979 "Berkeley Pascal PX Implementation Notes" Version 2.0 - January, 1979 William N. Joy, M. Kirk McKusick CSD, EECS, UCB April 9, 1981 --- "Berkeley Pascal PXP Implementation Notes" Version 1.1 - April, 1979 William N. Joy CSD, EECS, UCB April 10, 1981 --- "UNIX Aids for English Composition Courses" James Joyce Computing in the Humanities; 1982 --- "PIC -- A Crude Graphics Language for Typesetting" Brian W. Kernighan Bell Labs CSTR No. 85 January 24, 1981 also published in: Software--Practice and Experience, Vol. 12, 1-21 (1982) --- "Printf for the C Function Library" Christopher Kern BTYE; May, 1981 --- "The BDS C Compiler" Christopher Kern BYTE; June, 1981 --- "The Unix Programming Environment" Brian W. Kernighan, John R. Mashey IEEE Computer; April, 1981 --- "Hints on Configuring VAX Systems for UNIX" Revised: May 4, 1981 Bob Kridle, Bill Joy CSRG, UCB --- "Unix Text Formatting for Beginners" Gordon P. Leffadinger Computing Services, UCB May 10, 1982 (DRAFT) --- "The UNIX Operating System" "A Sophisticated and Portable Multiuser Operating System" Bob Marsh, Grant Munsey, Kip Myers, Craig Forney Microcomputer Operating Systems, in Microcomputer Applications, (c) 1981 --- "Data Stream Linkage Mechanism" J. P. Morrison IBM Syst J, Vol. 17, No. 4; 1978 --- "Unix-like software runs on mini- and microcomputers" P. J. Plauger and M. S. Krieger Electronics; March 24, 1981 --- "An Inter-Process Communication Facility for UNIX" Richard F. Rashid CMU-CS-80-124 February 4, 1980 Revised: 11 June 1980 "An Inter-Process Communication Facility for UNIX" Richard F. Rashid February 4, 1980 Revised: 2 April 1981 --- "Thoughts on 'An Architecture for Interprocess Communication' by William Joy and Robert Fabry" DRAFT -- DO NOT CIRCULATE' A Personal Commentary Richard F. Rashid printed 29-Jul-81 --- "An Introduction to the Berkeley Network" Eric Schmidt CSD, EECS, UCB May, 1979 (revised March, 1980) --- "The UNIXperience for the Unexpert" Wurster Computer Center "The UNIXperience for Unexperts was prepared with the UNIX system by Claire E. Taylor, a real beginner, in the Spring of 1979, for the computer graphics course taught by Aaron Marcus" --- "LIST -- A Source-Listing Program for the C Language" Jeff Taylor BYTE; June, 1981 --- "The -mx Macro Package: A Revised Version of -ms" Bill Tuthill Computing Services, UCB (DRAFT) --- "Literary Text Processing by Computer" William Tuthill Comparative literature Dept., UCB 15 January 1981 also, man pages for assorted commands in the HUM section: cedilla, cfreq, dict, dissolve, ... --- "The Unix Word Processing Facilities" Vance Vaughan June 1, 1977 --- "Adapting Unix to a 16-bit microcomputer" Bruce Weiner and Douglas Swartz Electronics; March 24, 1981 --- "Productivity Engineering in the UNIX Environment" EECS & ERL, UCB This appears to be a grant proposal: "The proposed contract will be a continuation of contract N00039-80-K-0649, ARPA Order Number 4031, April 1980 to present." --- (not in a folder) "Writing Distributed Programs with Courier" Eric C. Cooper CSD, EECS, UCB "gprof: A Call Graph Execution Profiler" Susan L. Graham, Peter B. Kessler, Marshall K. McKusick CSD, EECS, UCB Proc. ACM SIGPLAN -82 Symp. on Compiler Construction "VAX/VMS Performance and Configuration" Hank Levy Advanced-11 Engineering August 15, 1978 --- "A Fast File System for UNIX" DRAFT of September 6, 1982 Marshall Kirk McKusick, William N. Joy, Samuel J. Leffler, Robert S. Fabry CSRG, CSD, EECS, UCB "Refer -- A Bibliography System" Bill Tuthill Computing Services, UCB October 1, 1982 "Refer -- A Bibliography System" Bill Tuthill Humanities Computing Service, UCB September 6, 1982 "The Cambridge Ring and UNIX" R. P. A. Collinson Software--Practice and Experience, Vol. 12, 583-594 (1982) "Description of a Menu Creation and Interpretation System" Michael J. Heffler Software--Practice and Experience, Vol. 12, 269-281 (1982) "A Programmable Text Editor" Christopher W. Fraser Software--Practice and Experience, Vol. 12, 241-250 (1982) "The Syntax of Interactive Command Languages: A Framework for Design" I. Trotter Hardy, Jr. Software--Practice and Experience, Vol. 12, 67-75 (1982) "Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language" Brian W. Kernighan CSTR No. 100 July 18, 1981 "A High-Level Approach to Computer Document Formatting" Brian K. Reid 1980 ACM 0-89791-011-7 "How Users Search: A Comparison of Menu and Attribute Retrieval Systems on a Library Catalog" V. J. Geller M. E. Lesk Bell Labs September 27, 1981 "Porting the Unix Operating System" Robert Erickson, Peter Tom HHB-SOFTRON (describes porting of UNIX/v7 to the SIEMENS R30) --- "A Walk Through AWK" Leon S. Levy Bell Labs SIGPLAN Notices, V18 #12; December, 1983 --- "Setting Up Unix - Seventh Edition" Charles B. Haley, Dennis M. Ritchie Bell Labs UNX 13.2.2 --- "PARTS - A System for Assigning Word Classes to English Text" L. L. Cherry Bell Labs, CSTR No. 81 --- "Writing Tools - The STYLE and DICTION Programs L. L. Cherry, W. Vesterman February, 1981 "Writing Tools - The STYLE and DICTION Programs L. L. Cherry, W. Vesterman November 22, 1980 Letter from Jim Joyce to Lorinda Cherry, inviting her to speak at the 1983 meeting of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing "The Seybold Report on Word Processing" Vol. 4, No. 1, January 1981 ISSN: 0160-9572 --- "Route Finding in Street Maps by Computers and People" R. J. Elliott, M. E. Lesk Bell Labs --- "Regenerating System Software" Charles B. Haley, Dennis M. Ritchie Bell Labs UNX 13.2.3 --- "Make - A Program for Maintaining Computer Programs" S. I. Feldman Bell Labs --- ---

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:

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