[SPG_Active_Members] Usenix paper on the recovery of the V1 Unix kernel

[Paul McJones]

Very impressive work, and it was enabled by Al's efforts:

> Alas, with the above DECtapes fully explored, there
> seemed to be no earlier UNIX artifacts except Ritchie¹s
> fragmentary code listings on paper. Then in 2006, Al
> Kossow from the Computer History Museum unearthed
> and scanned in a document by T. R. Bashkow entitled
> ³Study of UNIX², dated September 1972 [1]; this covers
> ³the structure, functional components and internal operation
> of the system². Included along with the study was
> what appeared to be a complete listing of an assembly
> version of the UNIX kernel. A second document unearthed
> contained the handwritten notes made in preparation
> of Bashkow¹s study; dates within this document
> indicate that the analysis of the UNIX kernel began in
> January 1972, implying that the kernel being studied was
> the 1st Edition UNIX kernel.


Paul 


On 6/19/09 4:33 PM, "Al Kossow" <kossow at computerhistory.org> wrote:

> Here is a pointer to the paper Warren Toomey delivered at Usenix yesterday
> on getting the Unix version 1 kernel running from a listing that existed at
> CHM.
> 
> http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix09/tech/full_papers/toomey/toomey.pdf
> 
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