[TUHS] Photo of old Unix manuals

[Rik Farrow via TUHS]

I don't have a photo of the binders I used when working with V7, but they
had about the same number of pages as the BSD 4.4 manuals seen in
http://www2.anteil.com/My_UNIX_Bookshelf.JPG. It was actually quite
possible to read all the manuals (I read most of them as part of book
writing research). By comparison, I visited a friend who wound up working
as an IBM systems programmer, and he had over 50 feet of shelf space with
IBM docs.

Rik


On Mon, Dec 29, 2025 at 10:36 AM Brian "Beej" Hall via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org>
wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 29, 2025 at 05:24:20PM +0000, segaloco via TUHS wrote:
> > Well speaking of POTS, in my second shelf pic there the shelf under
> > UNIX is a bunch of Bell System technical literature.
>
> Nice!
>
> > I'm curious, are these photos going in a slide show, pamphlet, etc?
>
> Alas, nothing so prestigious as even a slide show--just in the Canvas
> LMS the students use online.
>
> -Beej
>
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