[TUHS] Several Missing UNIX Documents Procured

[segaloco via TUHS]

On Monday, June 29th, 2026 at 18:35, segaloco via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

> Hello one and all!  I wanted to share news of a recent document haul that contains many interesting bits.
>
> ...
> 
> There are other odds and ends, and the seller found another binder already and may continue to do so, I've arranged to check in again on Friday.  Among the random bits here too are two issues of the WECo UNIX Systems Newsletter that, among other things, detail "UNIX Release 6.0".  From the February 1983 newsletter:
> 
> > UNIX System Release 6.0 planning and development is continuing on schedule.  The target ready-to-order
> > date is December 15, 1983.  The most probable features include:
> >
> > - Demand Paging
> > - Job Control
> > - shell Enhancements
> > - Curser(sic)/Terminfo Package
> > - Selected BSD commands (ls,mail,pg)
> > - cron/at Package
> > - Arbitrary length variable names in C (flexnames)
> 
> The earliest SVR2 manuals, those distributed internally to BTL facilities, are dated December, 1983, so presumably USG delivered on their ready-to-order timeline.
> 

These two newsletter issues are now uploaded here:

https://archive.org/details/unix-systems-newsletter-vol-5-no-3
https://archive.org/details/unix-systems-newsletter-vol-6-no-1

These are right as System V is making it out and Release 6.0 (SVR2) is being developed.  They give a little peek into what folks inside AT&T were seeing on the eve of System V and divestiture.

- Matt G.