[TUHS] Looking for a copy of Dennis's original standard I/O library paper from 1977

[Clem Cole via TUHS]

Matt,

 Thank you.   With Nelson's help we did find a copy inside of the PWB 1.0
docs, though it's of very poor quality.
https://bitsavers.org/pdf/att/unix/PWB_UNIX/Documents_for_the_PWB_UNIX_Time-Sharing_System_Edition_1.0_197710.pdf
[pgs 169-174]

By looking at Nelson's wonderful Unix Bibliography database, it looks like
Dennis might have published it as TM1159, on 6-May-1977

As for this HTML file, unfortunately, it is both incomplete (missing
several sections, including details on printf) and has a few entries that
the PWB version lacks for a couple of string routines.

On Fri, May 8, 2026 at 6:41 PM segaloco via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:

> On Friday, May 8th, 2026 at 13:23, Clem Cole via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org>
> wrote:
>
> > All the recent discussion about the original of the B Programming
> Language,
> > PG UNIX, UNIX/TS, et al, got me thinking of something else that so far
> has
> > been lost to time.  In 1977, Dennis published a Bell Laboratories
> internal
> > memorandum entitled: "*A New Input-Output **Package*," which described
> libS.
> > a for the then-current Sixth Edition.
>
> It looks like someone has digitized it as an HTML page here:
>
> http://roguelife.org/~fujita/COOKIES/HISTORY/V6/newgear.html
>
> Looks to be a Japanese UNIX history webpage:
>
> http://roguelife.org/~fujita/COOKIES/HISTORY/
>
> I haven't explored the rest of their stuff, busy with a
> work thing right now, but that might bear some further leads.
> Note the http: if anyone is paranoid about that sort of thing.
> Not like you're sending credentials but as someone who is on
> https-only and has to approve all my http connections I got my
> expected popup, so fyi.
>
> - Matt G.
>