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

[Michael Kerpan]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Rich Alderson
<simh at alderson.users.panix.com> wrote:

> I took at look at the two offerings.  The IEEE page lists all the references
> in that paper, a much longer list than the one that appears at the end of
> the Usenix paper.  I'm not quite ready to shell out $19 for a PDF, so I have
> no other way to judge the contenct, but that tells me that the IEEE paper is
> likely to have a good deal more than the other.


One of the fringe benefits of working at a University is the fact that
I can get these sorts of articles for free. Anyway, the two papers are
actually quite different. The USENIX paper is very tightly focused on
the actual restoration project, while the Journal paper talks more
broadly about early Unix history as well (though much of what it says
will be well known to folks who have read Life With Unix or A Quarter
Century of Unix)

Mike