[TUHS] Research Ninth Edition Manual (V1) Found

[Douglas McIlroy via TUHS]

> What version / edition is the manual in the lower lefthand corner from?
> It has the black cover with the number/letter blocks on it.

That's the trade publication of v7, typeset from the same source as
the Bell Labs publication.

On Fri, Oct 2, 2026 at 8:04 AM Arnold Robbins via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
>
> Arnold Robbins via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
>
> > I have a comb-bound 8th Edition manual. BWK got it for me, many years
> > ago. (More like decades, at this point. :-)  It's a bit beat up,
> > particularly the covers.
> >
> > It originally belonged to one Rae McLellan, whom I otherwise know
> > nothing about...
>
> I asked Doug and Brian:
>
> > From: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu>
> > Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2026 09:55:43 -0400
> > Subject: Re: Who was Rae McLellan?
> >
> > Rae McLellan was a go-to hardware designer and builder. If memory
> > serves, he participated in projects like UCDS (Unx circuit design
> > system) and TPC (The Phone Company, a novel switch architecture that
> > ran the department telephones) and chip design. At one point his
> > health declined inexplicably until he realized that his septic system
> > was contaminating his well. Rae was one of the old guard that stuck
> > with the Labs after many CS people decamped around the year 2000.
> >
> > Doug
>
> Brian adds:
>
> > Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2026 10:02:36 -0400 (EDT)
> > To: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu>
> > cc: arnold at skeeve.com
> > Subject: Re: Who was Rae McLellan?
> >
> > I have a (ever dimmer) memory that Rae also worked with Dave Ditzel
> > on the CRISP processors that Dave then carried further when he founded
> > TransMeta.  But treat this with a grain of salt.