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

[Jonathan Gray via TUHS]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2026 at 02:39:54AM +0000, segaloco via TUHS wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the scan.  I wonder if the cover was as fun as the 1979 one.

It isn't quite Sixth Edition as distributed externally.  It mentions
man, troff and even sed.  Also access() and alarm() system calls which
were part of the "50 changes" tape.