[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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