[TUHS] Fwd: A cameo by UNIX in BSTJ

Ed Cashin ecashin at noserose.net
Thu Jul 25 05:30:41 AEST 2013


What parts are missing from the archive mentioned by Poul-Henning Kamp?

  http://www3.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/

It has 1922 to 1983.  I was assuming that missing issues like 1942 issues 2
through 4 were not ever published.

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Larry McVoy <lm at bitmover.com> wrote:

> I'd like to know where I can get the entire BSTJ.  For the record,
> Bell Labs was the *the* place when I was growing up.  Reading their
> journals was right up there with having an account on slovax at
> uwisc and reading the bell labs/BSD source.
>
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:34:10AM +1000, Warren Toomey wrote:
> > All, I got this interesting e-mail from Poul-Henning a few days ago.
> >       Warren
> >
> > ----- Forwarded message from Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>
> -----
> >
> >    Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 13:27:27 +0000
> >    From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk>
> >    To: wkt at tuhs.org
> >    Subject: A cameo by UNIX in BSTJ
> >
> > Some months ago I faced a flight from Denmark to NZ and back again,
> > so I bought a Kobo eBook reader and reformatted the entire BSTJ to fit
> > the screen.
> >
> > That gave me about 100k "pages" to read, plenty for my NZ-flights
> > and a large number of otherwise wasted moments since then.  Highly
> > recommeded.
> >
> > Recently I came over what I belive is the first mention of UNIX in BSTJ.
> >
> > We all know about the v57i6, July-August 1978 "UNIX Time-Sharing System"
> > issue, but it transpires that UNIX made a cameo two years earlier
> > in an article about compression-schemes for TeleFax:
> >
> > www3.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol55-1976/articles/bstj55-10-1539.pdf
> >
> > Enjoy,
> >
> > Poul-Henning
> >
> > --
> > Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
> > phk at FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
> > FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe
> > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by
> incompetence.
> >
> > ----- End forwarded message -----
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