[TUHS] Large USG Library Archive (And Some Extras)

[segaloco via TUHS]

Hello once again everyone, I am proud to announce the publication of a
number of documents scanned by Stephen Searle from his large collection
of UNIX Support Group (USG) library documents from the 70s and 80s.
Stephen worked under Ted Kowalski at Murray Hill and and then later at
Piscataway, becoming friends with the technical librarian who then
provided these and other documents.

https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/TechReports/USG_Library/

Among these documents is #1100, the UNIX Bibliography as maintained by
USG. This lists out references to the other documents in this
collection as well as the USG library numbers for other known and
unknown documents. Even better, two revisions of the bibliography are
present, as well as a number of other papers detailing the documentation
efforts of systems such as Program Generic Issues 1 and 2, UNIX/TS, and
PWB 2.0. All in all, much light is shed on early USG UNIX prior to
System III. In addition, there are documents concerning BTLs
microprocessor efforts, including use of Intellec MDS units, a MAC-8
software simulator, and the application of the IS25 assembly language
to the MAC-80/BellMAC-32 project.

Most interesting to me are some directory listings of the source files
that make up USG Program Generic Issue 1 and 2. Unfortunately the full
sources are not available, but the directory listings at least give an
idea of what source files were present, making it possible to then
identify what pages were added/altered in the manuals between Issue 1
and the preserved Issue 2 manual. Similarly, a list of MRs addressed in
PWB 2.0 could be helpful in tandem with extant CB-UNIX literature to
reconstruct a bit more fully what PWB 2.0 looked like.

Anywho, exciting stuff, I'll probably start some separate threads on
Program Generic, UNIX/TS, and PWB 2.0 findings derived from the new
information here sometime in the coming weeks, I'm still pouring over
the Program Generic source file descriptions heavily.

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As mentioned, there are some extras. These are not from the same
archival effort, rather, a few things I plucked from a box of misc
documents I'm still sorting through.

First is Bob Fabry's initial BSD proposal, describing the proposed
additions and changes Berkeley intends to make to 32V:

https://archive.org/details/proposal-to-provide-vax-unix-system-support-at-berkeley

Second is the earliest C Reference Manual I've seen. I base this on
the fact that the introduction states the IBM compiler is in the works.
The earliest C Reference Manual I've seen before this stated that the
IBM compiler was already in use. I think this makes this the earliest
C Reference Manual now scanned:

https://archive.org/details/c-reference-manual-1973

Discussion on these two can spin off separately, just figured I'd
announce the next batch of documents together rather than a bunch of
little threads.

Enjoy!

- Matt G.