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

[Rich Alderson]

> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:01:50 -0700
> From: Carl Lowenstein <carl.lowenstein at gmail.com>

> 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):

>>  DOI =          "http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MAHC.2009.55",

>>  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.",

> 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

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.

                                                                Rich