[TUHS] Photo of old Unix manuals

Brian Stuart via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org
Tue Dec 30 11:33:29 AEST 2025


I love this idea.  I'm going to steal ^W pay homage to this idea and
share some of these pictures in my OS class that starts next week.

BLS

On Sun, Dec 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM Brian "Beej" Hall via TUHS
<tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> I'm looking for an impressive photograph of a bookshelf containing the
> Unix man page books. (I remember when I had an AT&T Unix PC it had a
> bunch of them. Not sure which weighed more--the PC or the books. Sadly I
> no longer possess it.)
>
> In the first week of the OS class I'm teaching, I talk about the
> different sections of the Unix manual and I thought it would be fun to
> show the students what it was like when you had to read "books". :)
>
> My searching is turning up nothing. Does anyone have one they wouldn't
> mind me sharing?
>
> -Beej
>
> --
> Brian "Beej Jorgensen" Hall
> beej at beej.us  https://beej.us/


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