[TUHS] Photo of old Unix manuals

[William H. Mitchell via TUHS]

I remember many times forty years ago extolling the virtues of the latest 4.XBSD to Professor Chris Fraser, my then would-be supervisor at U of Arizona CS. Dr. Fraser would grab his Sixth Edition manual, a single binder maybe two inches thick, shake it at me, and say, "This is all you need!"

He was pretty much right, of course.

FWIW, I learned a lot about UNIX in grad school by watching TV: I’d flip through printed 4.1BSD documentation during commercials.  At the time I was tempted to merge sections 2 and 3 of the loose-leaf manual. "What's the difference?", I thought!  I later "got it", but that still makes for a good exam question in a UNIX-related OS class.

William Mitchell
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