[TUHS] UNIX Reference Card (Was: Vi Quick Reference card for 4.4 BSD)

[segaloco via TUHS]

On Saturday, January 3rd, 2026 at 20:42, Jonathan Gray via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 04, 2024 at 10:32:25AM -0400, Clem Cole wrote:
> 
> > Also, while looking for the vi cards, I turned up two wonderful artifacts
> > that I'll try to get scanned and added to TUHS at some point. When you
> > purchased V7 from AT&T, you got one copy of the printed docs and a small
> > "purple/red" 9"x3.5" flip-binding reference card that Lorinda Cherry
> > compiled. Also, when DEC released V7M-11, they printed a small flip-binding
> > 8"x4" reference called the "programmers guide" [AA-X7978-1C]—which is
> > similar but different.
> 
> 
> Was the first edition also distributed to V6 licensees?
> 
> --
> 
> UNIX Reference Card - First Edition
> L. L. Cherry
> September, 1975
> A handy guide to UNIX commands and syntax.
> 
> mentioned in:
> tuhs Distributions/Research/Dan_Cross_v10/v10src.tar.bz2
> v10/doc/bibliog.a unpm-docs
> 
> --

This is now scanned, albeit from a photocopy unknown generations removed
and without covers or title page.  It ain't great but should be good
enough until a real one gets scanned without generational fuzz.

https://archive.org/details/unix-reference-card-first-edition

Page 23 (22 in PDF) concerns site dependent commands, most of which
concern networking with other systems like IBM and GE/Honeywell stuff.

The references in the end date this to the Sixth Edition.  There is a
blacked-out bit in the TROFF User's Manual reference, I can't quite make
it out, it was in previous generations of whatever scan this came from
but I can make out a 127 and a 4 I believe, it's probably a crossed out
memorandum number.

With the Second Edition distributed with V7, and another issue produced
for Release 4.0, I now wonder how many other variations on this were
made.

There is a yellow fan-fold "Quick Guide" from 1982 by, like the
yellow-covered comb-bound handbooks, Morris Bolsky.  A later edition
then appears in 1987, same by-line.

Speaking of the ex/vi card that spurred this conversation, AT&T
had their own variant, issue 2 here:

https://archive.org/details/unix-system-v-visual-editor-quick-reference-issue-2

- Matt G.