From wkt at tuhs.org Wed Jul 24 11:34:10 2013 From: wkt at tuhs.org (Warren Toomey) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 11:34:10 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] Fwd: A cameo by UNIX in BSTJ Message-ID: <20130724013409.GB19629@neddie.local.net> All, I got this interesting e-mail from Poul-Henning a few days ago. Warren ----- Forwarded message from Poul-Henning Kamp ----- Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 13:27:27 +0000 From: Poul-Henning Kamp To: wkt at tuhs.org Subject: A cameo by UNIX in BSTJ Some months ago I faced a flight from Denmark to NZ and back again, so I bought a Kobo eBook reader and reformatted the entire BSTJ to fit the screen. That gave me about 100k "pages" to read, plenty for my NZ-flights and a large number of otherwise wasted moments since then. Highly recommeded. Recently I came over what I belive is the first mention of UNIX in BSTJ. We all know about the v57i6, July-August 1978 "UNIX Time-Sharing System" issue, but it transpires that UNIX made a cameo two years earlier in an article about compression-schemes for TeleFax: www3.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol55-1976/articles/bstj55-10-1539.pdf Enjoy, Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk at FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. ----- End forwarded message ----- From lm at bitmover.com Wed Jul 24 12:47:20 2013 From: lm at bitmover.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 19:47:20 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Fwd: A cameo by UNIX in BSTJ In-Reply-To: <20130724013409.GB19629@neddie.local.net> References: <20130724013409.GB19629@neddie.local.net> Message-ID: <20130724024720.GH28626@bitmover.com> I'd like to know where I can get the entire BSTJ. For the record, Bell Labs was the *the* place when I was growing up. Reading their journals was right up there with having an account on slovax at uwisc and reading the bell labs/BSD source. On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:34:10AM +1000, Warren Toomey wrote: > All, I got this interesting e-mail from Poul-Henning a few days ago. > Warren > > ----- Forwarded message from Poul-Henning Kamp ----- > > Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 13:27:27 +0000 > From: Poul-Henning Kamp > To: wkt at tuhs.org > Subject: A cameo by UNIX in BSTJ > > Some months ago I faced a flight from Denmark to NZ and back again, > so I bought a Kobo eBook reader and reformatted the entire BSTJ to fit > the screen. > > That gave me about 100k "pages" to read, plenty for my NZ-flights > and a large number of otherwise wasted moments since then. Highly > recommeded. > > Recently I came over what I belive is the first mention of UNIX in BSTJ. > > We all know about the v57i6, July-August 1978 "UNIX Time-Sharing System" > issue, but it transpires that UNIX made a cameo two years earlier > in an article about compression-schemes for TeleFax: > > www3.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol55-1976/articles/bstj55-10-1539.pdf > > Enjoy, > > Poul-Henning > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > phk at FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com From ecashin at noserose.net Thu Jul 25 05:30:41 2013 From: ecashin at noserose.net (Ed Cashin) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 15:30:41 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Fwd: A cameo by UNIX in BSTJ In-Reply-To: <20130724024720.GH28626@bitmover.com> References: <20130724013409.GB19629@neddie.local.net> <20130724024720.GH28626@bitmover.com> Message-ID: What parts are missing from the archive mentioned by Poul-Henning Kamp? http://www3.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/ It has 1922 to 1983. I was assuming that missing issues like 1942 issues 2 through 4 were not ever published. On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Larry McVoy wrote: > I'd like to know where I can get the entire BSTJ. For the record, > Bell Labs was the *the* place when I was growing up. Reading their > journals was right up there with having an account on slovax at > uwisc and reading the bell labs/BSD source. > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:34:10AM +1000, Warren Toomey wrote: > > All, I got this interesting e-mail from Poul-Henning a few days ago. > > Warren > > > > ----- Forwarded message from Poul-Henning Kamp > ----- > > > > Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 13:27:27 +0000 > > From: Poul-Henning Kamp > > To: wkt at tuhs.org > > Subject: A cameo by UNIX in BSTJ > > > > Some months ago I faced a flight from Denmark to NZ and back again, > > so I bought a Kobo eBook reader and reformatted the entire BSTJ to fit > > the screen. > > > > That gave me about 100k "pages" to read, plenty for my NZ-flights > > and a large number of otherwise wasted moments since then. Highly > > recommeded. > > > > Recently I came over what I belive is the first mention of UNIX in BSTJ. > > > > We all know about the v57i6, July-August 1978 "UNIX Time-Sharing System" > > issue, but it transpires that UNIX made a cameo two years earlier > > in an article about compression-schemes for TeleFax: > > > > www3.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol55-1976/articles/bstj55-10-1539.pdf > > > > Enjoy, > > > > Poul-Henning > > > > -- > > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > > phk at FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by > incompetence. > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > _______________________________________________ > > TUHS mailing list > > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs > > -- > --- > Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com > http://www.bitkeeper.com > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs > -- Ed Cashin http://noserose.net/e/ http://www.coraid.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From doug at cs.dartmouth.edu Fri Jul 26 08:10:16 2013 From: doug at cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 18:10:16 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Fwd: A cameo by UNIX in BSTJ Message-ID: <201307252210.r6PMAGPA011216@stowe.cs.dartmouth.edu> Ken Thompson has famously said that the only thing he'd do differently if he were to do Unix afresh would be to spell "create" with a final e. The BSTJ cameo (or product placement?) reveals another example: he'd spell Unix as an ordinary proper name. Once the marketers had glommed onto "UNIX" as a trademark, we were regularly badgered when when we tried to naturalize the name. References to "Unix" in internal documents were scrubbed to "UNIX" for external consumption. I'd like to think that by exhibiting "Unix" in an image Netravali et al intentionally cocked a snook at corporate orthodoxy. Incidentally, the online BSTJ is complete. A new publication, the AT&T Technical Journal took its place after 1983, with a new format and quite different content. The replacement publication was a house organ, not a research journal. Doug From david at kdbarto.org Fri Jul 26 09:56:28 2013 From: david at kdbarto.org (David Barto) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:56:28 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 105, Issue 2 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4C10577F-5352-49E9-8A7E-72FFB6ABB226@kdbarto.org> On Jul 24, 2013, at 7:00 PM, tuhs-request at minnie.tuhs.org wrote: > What parts are missing from the archive mentioned by Poul-Henning Kamp? > > http://www3.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/ > > It has 1922 to 1983. I was assuming that missing issues like 1942 issues 2 > through 4 were not ever published. I've got Vol 68, No. 8 October 1984, the second 'Unix System' edition of the BLTJ. Additional articles on all things Unix: Evolution of the UNIX Time-sharing system Program Design in the UNIX System Environment The Blit: A Multiplexed Graphics Terminal Debugging C programs with the Blit UNIX Operation System Security File Security and the UNIX System Crypt Command The Evolution of C - Past and Future Data Abstration in C by B. Stroustrup - The first C++ mention that I know of in the Journal Multiprocessor UNIX Systems A UNIX System Implementation for System/370 UNIX Operating System Porting Experiences The evolution of UNIX System Performance Cheap Dynamic Instruction Counting Theory and Practice in the Construction of a Working Sort Routine The Fair Share Scheduler The Virtual Protocol Machine A Network of Computers Running the UNIX System A Stream Input-Output System (D M Richie) - SYS V streams implementation description David