[TUHS] Photo of old Unix manuals

[William H. Mitchell via TUHS]

I see "Ossanna" on the first and second edition manuals; perhaps those were his copies. I remember Ralph Griswold reverently talking about Joe Ossanna.

> On Jan 6, 2026, at 6:59 PM, Douglas McIlroy via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
> 
> Sorry, I thought the referenced attachment would be replaced
> by a link to a saved copy as happens with some attachments,
> but it turns out to exceed the tuhs size limit. it's now at
> https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/UnixManuals.jpg.
> In case anyone is wondering, the only printed form of v10 was
> the trade binding. Only v6, v7 (non-trade), and v10 included
> extra volumes of companion documents.
> 
> Doug.
> 
> Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2025 10:54:43 -0500
> From: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu>
> Subject: [TUHS] Re: Photo of old Unix manuals
> To: TUHS main list <tuhs at tuhs.org>
> 
> Attached is a photo of all the Research manuals.
> Top row v1-v5 (note the original owner's name on v1 and v2)
> Middle row v6 (2 vols), v7 (3 vols)
> Bottom row v7 (trade binding),  v8, v9, v10 (2 vols, trade binding)