All, it's time to nudge the conversation away from debugging 2017 OOM issues and the pre-UNIX history of the Arpanet. We've been able to recover quite a deal of UNIX artifacts in the past two decades, but what artifacts (in your opinion) are still out there that we should try and unearth? Remember that the 50th anniversary is coming up in 2019. Here's my list: - more PDP-7 source code: the shell, the rest of the utilities - more 1st Edition source code: the rest of the utilities - ditto the missing bits of 3rd, 4th and 5th Editions - the Phil Foglio artwork that became a Usenix t-shirt (Armando, any ideas?) - more details on who was Ted Bashkow, and the story behind his (+ others?) analysis of the 1st Edition kernel at http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Dennis_v1/PreliminaryUni… - a firm date on the day that Ken added pipes to the kernel :) What else should be we looking for? What physical artifacts (drawings, artwork etc.) have we missed that should be sought after? Cheers, Warren

On 06/12/17, Warren Toomey wrote: issues up ideas?) others?) Distributions/Research/Dennis_v1/PreliminaryUnixImplementationD ocument_Jun72.pdf (Replied off list accidentally, sorry Warren) I totally agree that having more of V2-V4 would be great. Recently, I've become interested in the UNIX development at AT&T. There is SysIII for PDP-11 and VAX and both work in simh. With SysVR1 I only found the PDP-11 version, would be cool to have the VAX version too. But turning to older stuff...there is not much info about the UNICES that were to become SysIII. I'm talking PWB (there is PWB/1.0 in the archive that I will try to get running soon, but I understand there were more versions), CB UNIX (only scans of it it seems) and the elusive UNIX/TS in various versions. I'm aware that these were not released under the ancient UNIX license, however the web source view on TUHS has the source code for SysIII and SysV and most of it can be found on archive.org as well, so the fact that they're not part of the public TUHS archive is a bit weird. BTW, I'm currently putting together installation instructions for various old UNICES on http://a.papnet.eu/UNIX/. And I also ported aiju's blit emulator to Unix recently (ran on plan 9 originally): https://github.com/aap/blit So have fun running v8 with this. aap

I am also interested in the early development of networked GUI's that led to the X Window System.

I suppose they are not on the main-line of UNIX artifacts, but they definitely influenced the modern UNIX experience (the workstation era onward to the present.)

I am also interested in the early development of networked GUI's that led to the X Window System. According to Wikipedia there was a W Window System that predated X.