Complete stack of BSD 4.3 bound handbooks
In my teenagers and early 20s I was consumed with the history of computing and the web. I still am, however other obessions have actually lowered the relative weight of this interest. It was throughout those years that I made a routine trip to the MIT Flea MarketI purchased much of the parts for my very first computer systems there. I likewise discovered this essential piece of calculating history, a complete set of 4.3 BSD handbooks, Virtual VAX-11 Version from April, 1986.
The very first thing I saw was that this set consists of 2 similar copies of the index. It was a multi-user system, and having 2 copies of the index would have can be found in convenient!
The index was prepared utilizing an automated indexing program composed at Believing Machines CorporationCambridge, MA.
Page of index
The remainder of the books all consist of the familiar nroff-formatted manual pages, though some are much shorter than the ones you’ll discover today in a contemporary UNIX-decendent’s man program.