Some of you may recall my friend Jim Joyce, who was an early proponent of Unix. IIRC, he taught the first course on Unix at UCB. Later on, he started and ran mail-order bookstores and seminars specializing in Unix-related topics, helped to found Unix Review, etc.
In any event, I have about a cubic foot of early Unix papers, saved from Jim's files after his death. It's quite likely that all of these papers are already available in collections, but I'd like to make sure that any exceptions don't get lost. Also, the printed copies may have some independent historical merit. Suggestions?
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Larry McVoy reports today:
>> People like Sunview's api enough that there was an Xview toolkit which
>> was Sunview ported to X10/X11.
The interface was nicely documented in three editions of a book (I
have no entry for the second edition):
@String{pub-ORA = "O'Reilly \& {Associates, Inc.}"}
@String{pub-ORA:adr = "981 Chestnut Street, Newton, MA 02164, USA"}
@Book{Heller:1990:XPM,
author = "Dan Heller",
title = "{XView} Programming Manual",
volume = "7",
publisher = pub-ORA,
address = pub-ORA:adr,
pages = "xxviii + 557",
year = "1990",
ISBN = "0-937175-38-2",
ISBN-13 = "978-0-937175-38-5",
LCCN = "QA76.76.W56 D44 v.7 1990",
bibdate = "Tue Dec 14 22:55:18 1993",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/master.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
}
@Book{Heller:1991:XPM,
author = "Dan Heller",
title = "{XView} Programming Manual",
volume = "7A",
publisher = pub-ORA,
address = pub-ORA:adr,
edition = "Third",
pages = "xxxvii + 729",
month = sep,
year = "1991",
ISBN = "0-937175-87-0",
ISBN-13 = "978-0-937175-87-3",
LCCN = "QA76.76.W56 H447 1990",
bibdate = "Mon Jan 3 17:55:53 1994",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/master.bib",
series = "The Definitive guides to the X Window System",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
}
I have the first edition on a shelf near my campus office chair, and
continue to use olvwm as my window manager on multiple O/Ses, for 30+
years.
Every window manager designed since seems to fail to understand the
importance of user customizable, and pinnable, menus, which I exploit
to the hilt. The menu customization goes into a single, easy to edit,
text file, $HOME/.openwin-menu.
Compare that to the Gnome desktop, with hundreds of files, many of
them binary, stored in hidden directories under $HOME, and for which
any corruption breaks the window system, and prevents login (except
via a GUI console).
Also. olvwm does not litter a default desktop with icons for
applications that many of use would never use: just a simple blank
desktop, with menu popups bound to mouse buttons.
With olvwm, you can have any number of virtual desktops, not just the
2 or 4 offered by more modern window manaugers, and unlike some of
those, windows can be dragged between desktops.
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