18 Jan
1999
18 Jan
'99
8:33 p.m.
Dear PUPS/TUHS members,
I have just uploaded the distribution images for the University of Winconsin's
hacked 4.3BSD contributed by James Lothian. You can find them in the
Distributions/4bsd/thirdparty/UWisc4.3 directory in the PUPS archive.
I haven't uploaded James' own changed /usr/src yet, will probably do it later
at night.
Sincerely,
Michael Sokolov
Phone: 440-449-0299
ARPA Internet SMTP mail: mxs46(a)k2.scl.cwru.edu
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Subject: Co-authors for Unix history paper?
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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 13:08:22 +1100 (EST)
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Hi all,
I recently approached the IEEE Annals of Computing History journal
to see if they would be interested in a paper on our efforts to find and
preserve the old versions of Unix. They said yes, so I was wondering if
anybody might want to be co-author. This is what I suggested:
I'd like to write an article which describes the
efforts to find and
preserve historical material which is related to UNIX. This includes
finding tapes, reading them, decoding their formats etc.
The article would also discuss the mechanisms available for running
these old UNIX systems: by using old hardware (and the difficulties
of maintaining such equipment), by using software emulators (and
possibly a discussion of what they provide).
In other words, the actual history of UNIX and its influence would not
be covered, but the `archaeology' and preservation of artifacts from
the early days of UNIX would be.
Given that there are people on the list who deal with old hardware, reading
ancient tapes, etc., I thought they might like to add some input to the
paper.
I think the paper size is limited to around 25-30 pages, and has be formal
in tone. If anybody has any suggestions as to what should go in (or even
wants to write a section), then I would welcome some email!
Cheers all,
Warren
P.S I'm giving a similar, but much more informal, paper at a local
conference next month. The paper is at:
http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/Seminars/Saving_Unix/
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