[TUHS] UNIX/32V Version 1.0 Programmer's Manual Scan
segaloco via TUHS
tuhs at tuhs.org
Mon Jan 12 03:37:18 AEST 2026
Happy whichever time of day, I'd like to announce preservation of a scan
of the UNIX/32V Programmer's Manual, Version 1.0. I wasn't aware of any
paper scans of an original (non-BSD-ized) 32V manual, and came across
a photo of this one while searching for some other stuff. At first my
stomach jumped into my throat as I thought I was looking at a UNIX/TS
Version 1.0 manual (the UNIX/32V was hidden behind the report cover).
However, cross-referencing the dates and terminology soon revealed the
truth.
In any case, I contacted the poster and he indicated this was in a
bookshelf at an institution he used to work in, and luckily was able to
track the manual down. This would be the Department of Computer Science
at Aberystwyth University (https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/cs). The story
goes that they ordered 32V for a VAX 11/780 they acquired back in the
day and kept at least this manual. There isn't any indication of them
having a paper copy of Volume 2(A/B) unfortunately, but luckily the
TROFF sources are in the 32V distro tape which is long since preserved.
Without further ado, I've placed the scans here:
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/Manuals/UNIX_32V_Version_1.0/
These are presented as each manual section along with the intro, covers,
and the divider tabs as separate documents. I plan on mastering a
combined, single PDF to mirror over on my archive.org UNIX collection as
well, so keep an eye out for that.
Enjoy!
- Matt G.
P.S. I've got another, much larger preservation job to share here very
soon, so don't put your socks back on just yet! Hopefully I'll have the
attribution details figured out by this afternoon and will be publishing
that stuff too. More to come!
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