[TUHS] Some AT&T Promotional Material/Pricing from Early 80s

Jonathan Gray jsg at jsg.id.au
Tue Jun 6 15:26:22 AEST 2023


On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 03:04:53AM +0000, segaloco via TUHS wrote:
> Finally, in the same folder is also a nice stack of UNIX summary
> documents spanning different versions.  There are summaries for
> PWB, Mini-UNIX, V7, and 32V.  Additionally, there is a document
> "Proposal to Provide VAX UNIX system support at Berkeley" by Bob
> Fabry.  A quick internet search didn't turn up a PDF of this, so I
> have to wonder if it's preserved somewhere.  If not, it will be.

Is that the proposal mentioned in
https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/kirkmck.html
"In the fall of 1979, Bob Fabry responded to DARPA's interest in moving
towards Unix by writing a proposal suggesting that Berkeley develop an
enhanced version of 3BSD for the use of the DARPA community."

predating "The New ARPA VAX UNIX Project"
https://archive.org/details/login_january-1981/page/12/mode/2up

CSRG TR/4: Proposals for enhancement of UNIX on the VAX
https://archive.org/details/csrgtr4/mode/2up


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