[TUHS] Pirzada 1988 thesis added to archive

[Thalia Archibald via TUHS]

With the author’s permission, I’ve added Shamim Pirzada’s thesis on UNIX to the archive under
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/Theses/

    A Statistical Examination of The Evolution of the UNIX System
    Shamim Sharifuddin Pirzada
    September 1988
    PhD thesis
    Imperial College London

Thalia

> On Apr 10, 2026, at 21:37, Shamim Pirzada wrote:
> 
> Yes, I remember Thalia. Sure, go ahead. Though I have no idea about University of London copyrights etc. I’ll leave that to you.
> 
>> On Apr 10, 2026, at 6:07 PM, Thalia Archibald wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Shamim,
>> 
>> I exchanged emails with you earlier this year about your thesis for some research I was doing. We’d like to add your thesis to the Unix Heritage Archive (https://www.tuhs.org/), but I want to check with you first. Would you allow us to distribute your thesis?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Thalia Archibald
>> 
>>> On Apr 10, 2026, at 18:29, Jonathan Gray via TUHS wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Sat, Apr 11, 2026 at 12:06:05AM +0000, segaloco via TUHS wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Does anyone have handy a copy of Pirzada's thesis "A Statistical Examination of the Evolution of the Unix System"?  I'm having a bit of trouble finding a live link to a PDF at present.  Given the detailed history too, should/can a copy be placed in the archive?  I imagine if it's been publicly accessible elsewhere its probably fine to mirror.
>>>> 
>>>> - Matt G.
>>> 
>>> https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/entities/publication/700a4f59-117e-4a67-a5be-e1a4c0ef396d