[TUHS] Census of Early (Pre-C Kernel) UNIX Documents

[Jonathan Gray]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 09:03:43PM +0000, segaloco via TUHS wrote:
> Hello everyone, I'm currently laying the groundwork for a restart of my mandiff project, expanding it to encompass not just the manual-proper, but also the documents leading to the "Documents for UNIX" collections as well.  Thus far I'm about halfway done on a ROFF restoration of the earliest surviving draft of Dennis Ritchie's The UNIX Time-Sharing System paper[1], reconstructed from existing, later NROFF text and ROFF conventions from the Third Edition manual[2].

dmr_tapes/dmr2/tp/paper/ in
Applications/Dennis_Tapes/dmr_tapes.tgz

https://github.com/DoctorWkt/unix_timesharing_paper
may also interest you

> 
> Thus far, the additional documents I've found explicitly referenced in the earlier days are:
> 
> User's Reference Manual to B - K. Thompson[3]
> C Reference Manual - D. M. Ritchie[4 - see note]
> M6 Manual - A. D. Hall[5]
> ROFF Manual - J. F. Ossanna[6 - see note]
> A Manual for the TMG Compiler-writing Language - M. D. McIlroy[7]
> UNIX Assembler Manual - D. M. Ritchie[8 - see note]

dmr_tapes/dmr2/tp/aman/ in
Applications/Dennis_Tapes/dmr_tapes.tgz

which also has:

Regenerating System Software
dmr_tapes/dmr2/tp/direc*

Unix I/O System
dmr_tapes/dmr2/tp/iosys