[Simh] [simh] new paper on history of Unix

Carl Lowenstein carl.lowenstein at gmail.com
Thu Aug 19 19:01:50 EDT 2010


On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe at math.utah.edu> wrote:
> This new paper on the history of Unix may be of interest to
> some readers; getting the PDF from the DOI may require an
> IEEE digital library membership (either personal or institutional):
>
> @String{j-IEEE-ANN-HIST-COMPUT  = "IEEE Annals of the History of Computing"}
>
> @Article{Toomey:2010:FEU,
>  author =       "Warren Toomey",
>  title =        "{First Edition Unix}: Its Creation and Restoration",
>  journal =      j-IEEE-ANN-HIST-COMPUT,
>  volume =       "32",
>  number =       "3",
>  pages =        "74--82",
>  month =        jul # "\slash " # sep,
>  year =         "2010",
>  CODEN =        "IAHCEX",
>  DOI =          "http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MAHC.2009.55",
>  ISSN =         "1058-6180",
>  abstract =     "Until recently, the earliest versions of the Unix
>                 operating system were believed to have been lost
>                 completely. In 2008, however, a restoration team from
>                 the Unix Heritage Society completed an effort to
>                 resurrect and restore the first edition Unix to a
>                 running and usable state from a newly discovered
>                 listing of the system's assembly source code.",
>  fjournal =     "IEEE Annals of the History of Computing",
> }

This paper as published by Usenix may be the same information.  In any
case, it is easier to get a copy.

http://www.usenix.org/event/usenix09/tech/full_papers/toomey/toomey.pdf

    carl
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    carl lowenstein         marine physical lab     u.c. san diego
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