[TUHS] UNIX/32V Version 1.0 Programmer's Manual Scan

[Mary Ann Horton via TUHS]

Thank you for scanning this, Matt.

My first thought was "I have a 32V manual". So I dug it out to compare.

Yours is the official one, I guess, in the Bell System cover with tabs. 
Dated Feb 1979.

Mine is what London and Reiser sent to Berkeley. Dated December 1978. 
It's almost identical, as it should be. But I have no tabs and a comb 
binding. I gather Berkeley got one copy and had it reproduced into many. 
(It also came with Vol 2A and 2B, dated December 1978. My copy is a 
do-it-yourself copy in a store-bought report cover..

My copy of vol 1 has a light blue cover with the following text:

    (at top)
    Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated

    Holmdel, New Jersey

    (center of page)

    UNIX PROGRAMMER'S MANUAL

    Seventh Edition

    VAX-11 Version


    December 1979

It then proceeds to the Preface page (same as 00-intro page 3), 
Introduction to Volume 1 (00-intro page 5), a blank yellow page, Section 
1 (03-man1), through to UPDATE(8), with blank yellow pages between 
sections. The back cover is blank, the same light blue as the front.

It looks like we got a prerelease rather than the official 32V distribution.

Thanks,

/Mary Ann Horton/ (she/her/ma'am)
       Award Winning Author
maryannhorton.com <https://maryannhorton.com>



On 1/11/26 09:37, segaloco via TUHS wrote:
> 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!