I've assembled some notes from old manuals and other sources
on the formats used for on-disk file systems through the
Seventh Edition:
http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~norman/old-unix/old-fs.html
Additional notes, comments on style, and whatnot are welcome.
(It may be sensible to send anything in the last two categories
directly to me, rather than to the whole list.)
Seek and ye shall find.
Ask and ye shall receive.
Brian Kernighan was kind enough to find for me everyone's favorite
Computing Sceince Technical Report, CSTR 100, "Why Pascal is Not
My Favorite Programming Language".
Attached is the file and his macros. This will not immediately
format using groff etc.; I hope to create a version that will, sometime
in the next few weeks.
In the meantime, Warren, please add to the archives when you are able.
Enjoy!
Arnold
I was recently asked a question that I was not sure the answer, so I
thought I would pass it to this group of folks.
What was the first edition that actually left Murray Hill and where did it
go?
My own first encounter was the Fifth edition but I know that was later.
I'm pretty sure both Harvard and MIT had it before CMU. I'm thinking
Fourth edition went to Harvard and some other places ??NYU?? ??MIT?? Did
anything earlier than Fifth ever leave Murray Hill?
I don't think UCB or UofI got it until the Sixth edition. I believe there
was some earlier commercial site ??CU in NYC maybe?? may have been in there
also but I have no idea what version that was.
Doug do you know?
Warren any ideas?
Tx
Clem
> If Unix was written in Pascal I would've happily continued using Pascal!
Amusing in the context of Brian's piece, which essentially says if Unix
could have been written in Pascal, then Pascal wouldn't have been Pascal.
doug\
Hi All.
I have created a Git repo:
https://github.com/arnoldrobbins/cstr100
I set it up with the original MS macros and a Makefile to create
a PDF.
THANKS again to Brian Kernighan for finding the document and sharing it.
Arnold
Hi.
For a project I'm working on, I wonder if the Bell Labs alumni present
can tell me what was the default group for files for the researchers?
That is, what group did ls -l show?
In particular, in the late 90s - ~ V10 time frame.
Much thanks,
Arnold
> As a *roff fan, I'd love, love, love to see the original roff sources.
> Especially anything that uses pic/eqn/chem/etc.
I have the source for CSTR 155, a trilogy on raster ellipses. It uses
interesting preprocessors that are, alas, mostly lost: ideal, prefer, eqn.
(If anybody has ideal, I'd love to get it. Even its author, Chris Van Wyk,
doesn't have it.)
Doug
Doug McIlroy's mentioning `ideal' prompts me to ask something
I've long wanted to ask. The only use I ever saw of ideal was
in Peter Weinberger's memo about his C B-tree package. Was ideal
used for anything other than that?
Noel Hunt
Hi All.
I have made a tarball of all the Bell Labs CSTRs that I could
file: http://www.skeeve.com/cstr.tar.gz.
It's just under ten megs. Warren, can we get this into the archives?
Thanks,
Arnold
> From: Arthur Krewat
> That's not RUNOFF on TOPS-10 (or one it's predecessors) is it?
No, RUNOFF on CTSS - _much_ earlier - CTSS RUNOFF was in '64, which was
the year the PDP-6 came out.
Noel
