[TUHS] Yet Another Kernel Description Document

A. P. Garcia a.phillip.garcia at gmail.com
Tue Feb 21 11:50:09 AEST 2012


nice. any details on the provenance, like those you shared regarding
the 1st edition kernel documents a couple months ago?

On 2/20/12, Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> wrote:
> All, I've just received from Poul-Henning Kamp a document entitled
> "UNIX Program Description", dated January 1976 and written by the
> UNIX Support Group. It contains detailed descriptions of the functions
> inside a Unix kernel. Given the date and the USG origin, I'm guessing
> that the system described is PWB/1.0. Can anybody confirm this at all?
>
> The URL is
> http://minnie.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Distributions/usdl/unix_program_description_jan_1976.pdf
> but I'll move it if it turns out not to be about PWB.
>
> I love how new documents and artifacts keep appearing! Thanks phk.
>
> Cheers,
> 	Warren
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