The Strange Birth and Long Life of Unix

Rich Alderson wrote: This paper by the same author is far more detailed: The paper I indicated explains all this. But it seems that "first edition" refers to the manual instead of the software. I had the impression that someone had announced this about a year or so back. I looked at the listing but didn't pay too much attention. At the time I thought I was looking at PDP-7 assembly (I am reasonably familiar with the PDP-1 and PDP-11 and so would be unlikely to confuse the 7 and 11 even with a quick glance) but reading the paper it sure seems like I actually saw the PDP-11 material described there. This is very odd. I tried to remember where I saw this, but the obvious places don't have it: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/ http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/bellLabs/unix/ The link in the article doesn't seem to be what I had seen: http://code.google.com/p/unix-jun72/ The link there to the scanned document goes back to the bitsavers directory I had mentioned, so it is likely my memory is playing tricks on me and that this was a little longer ago than I remembered and PDP-11. Looking at the text it doesn't look familiar, specially the extensive "man pages" section. Very odd.... The difference between "first Unix" and "first edition Unix" is subtle, but accurate. It is also misleading for the general public, so I see your point. -- Jecel