[Simh] [simh] new paper on history of Unix
Nelson H. F. Beebe
beebe at math.utah.edu
Thu Aug 19 18:45:55 EDT 2010
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",
}
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