Accidentally ran into this today.
I’ve never seen this put together and thought it worth adding to the TUHS archives.
Hadn’t realised that both the authors of “Ball & Brown” (1968) were Aussies and UNSW alumni.
Studying a little accounting, this paper was mentioned as ’the most cited’ paper in the field.
The Big New Idea in 1968 was to use computers to analyse stock market data & show correlations.
I hadn’t known either had come back to Australia (QLD or WA then UNSW/AGSM),
then founded AGSM, with a focus on digital analysis of data.
Ian Johnstone, from CSE, went to AGSM to run their computers.
He recommended DEC + Unix and was backed by Brown, the director.
[ Andy Hume was recruited by Ian J, before leaving for a job at Bell Labs in the Computing Research Centre. ]
The AGSM license caused conniptions with the AT&T lawyers.
While AGSM fell into the near free “University & Education” license, they weren’t using Unix just for ‘education’.
AGSM became the first commercial licensee of Unix, or so I was told at the time.
Ian Johnstone was AUUGN editor while at AGSM, before scooting off to the USA and rising to heights there.
While Ball & Brown studied in Faculty of Commerce, they obviously had enough of a grounding
in ‘computing’ and data collection / handling / analysis to set the stage for their 1968 paper.
In 1971, Fortran IV was taught to first year students in Science, using John M Blatt’s (of UNSW) textbook.
It’s not unreasonable that Finance & Accounting had courses or training in Computing 5 years before that.
Within 10 years, they were both back at UNSW, running AGSM, teaching & using Digital research methods,
based solidly on Unix…
cheers
steve
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<https://www.agsm.edu.au/bobm/editorials/0206edit.html>
Looking back, I realise it must have been a fortuitous convergence for me:
thanks to Philip Brown and Ian Johnstone, the AGSM had been running Unix machines since 1976;
thanks to Bob Wood, I read of Bob Axelrod's work with GAs in examining the Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma before it was published
(and Axelrod was also at Michigan);
thanks to my innate curiosity, I had been reading and contributing to the Usenet news groups on the Internet since 1986.
Sydney was not so far from Ann Arbor, finally.
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Phillip Brown
<https://fbe.unimelb.edu.au/accounting/caip/aahof/ceremonies/philip_brown>
Philip Brown holds an important and unique place within the annals of Australian accounting.
As co-author of the research paper that redefined the course of academic accounting research in the last forty years
he inadvertently set the research agendas and directions for a legion of academics that followed.
Philip started school at Riverstone in western Sydney with a short stint at Summer Hill in his final two years of primary education
proceeding to Canterbury Boys High School where he scored an average pass in his Leaving Certificate.
He then worked as a junior clerk in the accounting department of British Motor Corporation at Zetland.
Advised to seek tertiary qualifications he thought he should enrol for a commerce degree at the University of NSW.
Despite this advice, Philip enrolled as a part-time student in the Faculty of Commerce at University of New South Wales gaining the highest pass in the course.
This level of achievement was maintained throughout his degree leading inevitably to an honours year,
graduating with First Class Honours and taking a University Medal.
After graduation Philip tutored at University of New South Wales,
received a Fulbright Scholarship to study in the USA heading to the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
He completed his MBA in 1963 finishing top of the class
During this period [2 years after MBS] he met Ray Ball with whom he wrote a seminal paper that defined the course of accounting research for the next forty years.
Rather than pursue a career in the United States, Philip returned to Australia as a Reader in Accounting at the University of Western Australia (July, 1968 – June, 1970).
In 1974, Philip moved to Sydney to help establish the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM).
As inaugural Foundation Director he introduced world-class MBA and MPA (public administration) programs
to develop the skills of Australia's future leaders.
During his AGSM days Philip championed the development of Australian data in financial accounting research.
He saw the need for Australian share price data to be systematically collected and made available to researchers
spending a great deal of time personally collecting data and providing programming support for these databases.
The existence of these databases as a high quality resource for researchers is often taken for granted today
but it was the foresight scholars with foresight like Philip who saw the need and acted accordingly.
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Ray Ball
<https://fbe.unimelb.edu.au/accounting/caip/aahof/ceremonies/ray-ball>
Raymond John Ball is one of the most influential contemporary accounting scholars,
having held professorial positions in Australia at UNSW and Queensland,
and in the United States at Rochester and Chicago.
With a first-class honours degree and the University Medal from UNSW,
Ray moved to the University of Chicago where he earned an MBA and PhD.
In 1968 Ray Ball co-authored the seminal paper
‘An Empirical Evaluation of Accounting Income Numbers’
that revolutionised financial accounting research.
Drawing on the developing financial economics literature and linking accounting information and share prices in a novel manner,
the paper provided the foundation for modern capital markets-based research.
As the inaugural recipient of the American Accounting Association’s Seminal Contributions to the Accounting Literature Award in 1986
it was observed that
‘no other paper … has played so important a role in the development of accounting research during the past thirty years’.
It remains the most highly cited accounting research paper.
Ray Ball has also had a major influence on accounting education in Australia, h
aving been Professor of Accounting at the University of Queensland (1972-1976),
and foundation professor at the Australian Graduate School of Management (UNSW) (1976-1986),
where he was instrumental in the development of the first US-style PhD program in Accounting and Finance in Australia.
During his time at Queensland and UNSW he was instrumental in developing rigorous empirical research in Australian capital markets,
addressing issues such as the risk/return trade-off, dividend policy and taxation mechanisms.
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Hello fellow lovers of old UNIX,
Would anyone happen to have a raster scan (not OCR) of the original
printing of UNIX Programmer's Manual, 7th edition? Does such a thing
exist? Given that Brian S. Walden produced and published a PDF reprint
of this manual (presumably done with some "modern" version of troff)
back in 1998, I reason that there probably wasn't much interest in
preserving the original print by painstaking scanning (and the files
from such a scan would have been ginormous by 1998 standards), hence I
am not certain if such a scanned version exists - but I thought I
would ask nonetheless.
I was however very pleased to discover that some very kind soul named
Erica Fischer did scan and upload the complete set of Usenix printed
books for 4.2BSD and 4.3BSD - here is the 4.2BSD version:
https://archive.org/details/uum-ref-4.2bsdhttps://archive.org/details/uum-supplement-4.2bsdhttps://archive.org/details/upm-ref-4.2bsdhttps://archive.org/details/upm-supplement-4.2bsdhttps://archive.org/details/smm-4.2bsd
and here is 4.3BSD:
https://archive.org/details/uum-ref-4.3bsdhttps://archive.org/details/uum-supplement-4.3bsdhttps://archive.org/details/upm-ref-4.3bsdhttps://archive.org/details/upm-sup1-4.3bsdhttps://archive.org/details/upm-sup2-4.3bsdhttps://archive.org/details/smm-4.3bsdhttps://archive.org/details/uum-index-4.3bsd
It is my understanding that all supplementary docs (the papers that
were originally in volumes 2a and 2b in the V7 manual) were retroffed
by UCB/Usenix for 4.3BSD edition, but the earlier 4.2BSD Usenix print
seems to be different - it looks like for 4.2BSD they only did a new
troff run for all man pages and for new (Berkeley-added) supplementary
docs, but in the case of docs which originally appeared in V7 vol 2,
it appears that Usenix did some kind of analogue mass reproduction
from a historical V7 master, *without* doing a new troff run on those
docs. *If* this hypothesis is correct, then Erica's uploaded scan of
4.2BSD manuals can serve as a practical substitute for the presumably-
missing scan of the original printing of V7 manual - but I would like
to double-check my hypothesis with others who are presumably more
knowledgeable about this ancient history (some of you actually lived
through that history, unlike me!), hence the reason for this post.
I would appreciate either confirmation or correction of the guesses
and conjectures I expressed above.
M~
Hello TUHS,
I recently have been working on the Plan 9 fs/v6fs and fs/v32fs programs,
another member of the community had noticed bugs within them and I wanted
to verify that the new code is working as expected. I haven't had an issue
verifying v6fs using files from the TUHS archive but v32fs has proved to
be a bit more tricky. After a little bit of work we were able to get the 'file2'
located at https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/USDL/32V/ to mount and read
files. But given that all the files here are binaries it was a bit hard to make sure
we're getting the correct information. I attempted to cross reference the files I get
against the file2.tar also located within that spot in the archive but I am getting tar
errors when extracting this file, so its not exactly obvious if what I am checking against
is correct.
So I would like to ask if someone here knows exactly what the sha1sums of these files are
supposed to be and/or has another image with known contents I could test against. I will
preface this with the fact that I am not very well versed in old UNIX filesystems so
please let me know if I've missed anything.
Thank you,
Jacob Moody
Hi
I am interested in reconstructing the Public Domain 32000 (PD32) which appeared in 1986 edition of MicroCornicopia.
It claimed to run Unix System V on a PC 8-bit ISA board using the NS32016 chip set. Does anyone remember this system and/or have any interest in it?
Here is a link from Hackaday more fully describing the effort:
ISA bus slave NS32016 processor board | Hackaday.io
Thanks, Andrew Lynch
