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1.1 root 1: .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California.
2: .\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement
3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
4: .\"
5: .\" @(#)preface.ms 6.3 (Berkeley) 5/13/86
6: .\"
7: .nr PS 9
8: .nr VS 11
9: .vs 11p
10: .ps 9p
11: .TL
12: PREFACE
13: .OH 'Preface''- % -'
14: .EH '- % -''Preface'
15: .af % i
16: .LP
17: This update to the 4.2 distribution of August 1983 provides
18: substantially improved performance, reliability, and security,
19: the addition of Xerox Network System (NS) to the set of networking domains,
20: and partial support for the VAX 8600 and MICROVAXII.
21: .LP
22: We were greatly assisted by the DEC UNIX Engineering group who
23: provided two full time employees, Miriam Amos and Kevin Dunlap,
24: to work at Berkeley. They were responsible for developing and
25: debugging the distributed domain based name server
26: and integrating it into the mail system.
27: Mt Xinu provided the bug list distribution service as well as
28: donating their MICROVAXII port to 4.3BSD.
29: Drivers for the MICROVAXII were done by Rick Macklem
30: at the University of Guelph.
31: Sam Leffler provided valuable assistance and advice with many projects.
32: Keith Sklower coordinated with William Nesheim and J. Q. Johnson at Cornell,
33: and Chris Torek and James O'Toole at the University of Maryland
34: to do the Xerox Network Systems implementation.
35: Robert Elz at the University of Melbourne contributed greatly
36: to the performance work in the kernel.
37: Donn Seeley and Jay Lepreau at the University of Utah
38: relentlessly dealt with a miriad of details;
39: Donn completed the unfinished performance work on Fortran 77
40: and fixed numerous C compiler bugs.
41: Ralph Campbell handled innumerable questions and problem reports
42: and had time left to write rdist.
43: George Goble was invaluable in shaking out the bugs on his
44: production systems long before we were confident enough to
45: inflict it on our users.
46: Bill Shannon at Sun Microsystems has been helpful in
47: providing us with bug fixes and improvements.
48: Tom Ferrin, in his capacity as Board Member of Usenix Association,
49: handled the logistics of large-scale reproduction
50: of the 4.2BSD and 4.3BSD manuals.
51: Mark Seiden helped with the typesetting and indexing of the 4.3BSD manuals.
52: Special mention goes to Bob Henry for keeping ucbvax running
53: in spite of new and improved software and
54: an ever increasing mail, news, and uucp load.
55: .LP
56: Numerous others contributed their time and energy in creating
57: the user contributed software for the release.
58: As always, we are grateful to the UNIX user community for
59: encouragement and support.
60: .LP
61: Once again, the financial support of the Defense Advanced Research
62: Projects Agency is gratefully acknowledged.
63: .sp 1
64: .in 4i
65: .nf
66: M. K. McKusick
67: M. J. Karels
68: J. M. Bloom
69: .fi
70: .in 0
71: .sp 2
72: .ne 1i
73: .ce
74: \fIPreface to the 4.2 Berkeley distribution\fP
75: .sp 1
76: This update to the 4.1 distribution of June 1981 provides support
77: for the VAX 11/730, full networking and interprocess communication
78: support, an entirely new file system, and many other new features.
79: It is certainly the most ambitious release of software ever prepared
80: here and represents many man-years of work.
81: Bill Shannon (both at DEC and at Sun Microsystems)
82: and Robert Elz of the University
83: of Melbourne contributed greatly to this distribution
84: through new device drivers and painful debugging episodes.
85: Rob Gurwitz of BBN wrote the initial version of the code upon
86: which the current networking support is based.
87: Eric Allman of Britton-Lee donated countless hours to the mail system.
88: Bill Croft (both at SRI and Sun Microsystems) aided in the
89: debugging and development of the networking facilities.
90: Dennis Ritchie of Bell Laboratories also
91: contributed greatly to this distribution, providing
92: valuable advise and guidance. Helge Skrivervik
93: worked on the device drivers which enabled
94: the distribution to be delivered with a TU58
95: console cassette and RX01 console flopppy disk, and
96: rewrote major portions of the standalone i/o system
97: to support formatting of non-DEC peripherals.
98: .LP
99: Numerous others contributed their time and energy in organizing
100: the user software for release, while many groups of people on
101: campus suffered patiently through the low spots of development.
102: As always, we are grateful to the UNIX user community for
103: encouragement and support.
104: .LP
105: Once again, the financial support of the Defense Advanced Research
106: Projects Agency is gratefully acknowledged.
107: .sp 1
108: .in 4i
109: .nf
110: S. J. Leffler
111: W. N. Joy
112: M. K. McKusick
113: .fi
114: .in 0
115: .sp 2
116: .ne 1i
117: .ce
118: \fIPreface to the 4.1 Berkeley distribution\fP
119: .sp 1
120: This update to the fourth distribution of November 1980 provides
121: support for the VAX 11/750 and for the full interconnect architecture
122: of the VAX 11/780. Robert Elz of the University of Melbourne contributed
123: greatly to this distribution especially in the boot-time system
124: configuration code; Bill Shannon of DEC supplied us with the
125: implementation of DEC standard bad block handling. The research
126: group at Bell Laboratories and DEC Merrimack provided us with access
127: to 11/750's in order to debug its support.
128: .LP
129: Other individuals too numerous to mention provided us with bug reports,
130: fixes and other enhancements which are reflected in the system. We
131: are grateful to the UNIX user community for encouragement and
132: support.
133: .LP
134: The financial support of the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency
135: in support of this work is gratefully acknowledged.
136: .sp 1
137: .in 4i
138: .nf
139: W. N. Joy
140: R. S. Fabry
141: K. Sklower
142: .fi
143: .in 0
144: .sp 2
145: .ne 1i
146: .ce
147: \fIPreface to the Fourth Berkeley distribution\fP
148: .sp 1
149: This manual reflects the Berkeley system mid-October, 1980.
150: A large amount of tuning has been done in the system since the last release;
151: we hope this provides as noticeable an improvement for you as it did for us.
152: This release finds the system in transition; a number of facilities
153: have been added in experimental versions (job control, resource limits)
154: and the implementation of others is imminent (shared-segments, higher
155: performance from the file system, etc.).
156: Applications which use facilities that are in transition should be aware
157: that some of the system calls and library routines will change
158: in the near future. We have tried to be conscientious and make it
159: very clear where this is likely.
160: .LP
161: A new group has been formed
162: at Berkeley, to assume responsibility for the future
163: development and support of a version of UNIX on the VAX.
164: The group has received funding from the
165: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
166: to supply a standard version of the system to DARPA contractors.
167: The same version of the system will be made available to other licensees
168: of UNIX on the VAX for a duplication charge.
169: We gratefully acknowledge
170: the support of this contract.
171: .LP
172: We wish to acknowledge the contribution of a number of individuals to
173: the the system.
174: .LP
175: We would especially like to thank
176: Jim Kulp of IIASA,
177: Laxenburg Austria and his colleagues,
178: who first put job control facilities into UNIX;
179: Eric Allman, Robert Henry, Peter Kessler and Kirk McKusick, who
180: contributed major new pieces of software;
181: Mark Horton, who contributed to the improvement of facilities and
182: substantially improved the quality of our bit-mapped fonts,
183: our hardware support staff:
184: Bob Kridle,
185: Anita Hirsch,
186: Len Edmondson
187: and
188: Fred Archibald,
189: who helped us to debug a number of new peripherals;
190: Ken Arnold who did much of the leg-work in getting this version of the
191: manual prepared, and did the final editing of sections 2-6,
192: some special individuals within Bell Laboratories:
193: Greg Chesson,
194: Stuart Feldman,
195: Dick Haight,
196: Howard Katseff,
197: Brian Kernighan,
198: Tom London,
199: John Reiser,
200: Dennis Ritchie,
201: Ken Thompson,
202: and
203: Peter Weinberger
204: who helped out by answering questions;
205: our excellent local DEC field service people,
206: Kevin Althaus and Frank Chargois
207: who kept our machine running virtually all the time, and fixed it quickly
208: when things broke;
209: and,
210: Mike Accetta of Carnegie-Mellon University,
211: Robert Elz of the University of Melbourne,
212: George Goble of Purdue University,
213: and
214: David Kashtan of the Stanford Research Institute
215: for their technical advice and support.
216: .LP
217: Special thanks to Bill Munson of DEC who helped by augmenting
218: our computing facility
219: and to Eric Allman for carefully proofreading the
220: ``last'' draft of the manual and finding the bugs which we knew were
221: there but couldn't see.
222: .LP
223: We dedicate this to the memory of David Sakrison, late chairman of our
224: department, who gave his support to the establishment of our VAX
225: computing facility, and to our department as a whole.
226: .sp 1
227: .in 4i
228: .nf
229: W. N. Joy
230: \v'-3p'\h'2p'\*:\v'3p'\h'-2p'O. Babao\*~glu
231: R. S. Fabry
232: K. Sklower
233: .fi
234: .in 0
235: .sp 2
236: .ne 1i
237: .ce
238: \fIPreface to the Third Berkeley distribution\fP
239: .sp 1
240: This manual reflects the state of the Berkeley system, December 1979.
241: We would like to thank all the people at Berkeley who have contributed to
242: the system, and particularly thank
243: Prof. Richard Fateman for creating and administrating a hospitable environment,
244: Mark Horton who helped prepare this manual, and
245: Eric Allman, Bob Kridle, Juan Porcar
246: and Richard Tuck for their contributions to the kernel.
247: .LP
248: The cooperation of Bell Laboratories in providing us with an early version of
249: \s-2UNIX\s0/32V is greatly appreciated. We would especially like to thank
250: Dr. Charles Roberts of Bell Laboratories for helping us obtain this release,
251: and acknowledge
252: T. B. London,
253: J. F. Reiser,
254: K. Thompson,
255: D. M. Ritchie,
256: G. Chesson and
257: H. P. Katseff
258: for their advice and support.
259: .sp 1
260: .in 4i
261: W. N. Joy
262: .br
263: \v'-3p'\h'2p'\*:\v'3p'\h'-2p'O. Babao\*~glu
264: .in 0
265: .sp 2
266: .ne 1i
267: .ce
268: \fIPreface to the UNIX/32V distribution\fP
269: .sp 1
270: The
271: .UX
272: operating system for the VAX*-11
273: .FS
274: *VAX and PDP are Trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation.
275: .FE
276: provides substantially the same facilities as the
277: \s-2UNIX\s0
278: system for the PDP*-11.
279: .LP
280: We acknowledge the work of many who came before us, and particularly thank
281: G. K. Swanson, W. M. Cardoza, D. K. Sharma, and J. F. Jarvis for assistance
282: with the implementation for the VAX-11/780.
283: .sp 1
284: .in 4i
285: T. B. London
286: .br
287: J. F. Reiser
288: .in 0
289: .sp 2
290: .ne 1i
291: .ce
292: \fIPreface to the Seventh Edition\fP
293: .sp 1
294: .LP
295: Although this Seventh Edition no longer bears their byline,
296: Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie remain the fathers
297: and preceptors of the
298: \s-2UNIX\s0
299: time-sharing system.
300: Many of the improvements here described bear their mark.
301: Among many, many other people who have contributed to
302: the further flowering of
303: \s-2UNIX\s0,
304: we wish especially to
305: acknowledge the contributions of
306: A. V. Aho,
307: S. R. Bourne,
308: L. L. Cherry,
309: G. L. Chesson,
310: S. I. Feldman,
311: C. B. Haley,
312: R. C. Haight,
313: S. C. Johnson,
314: M. E. Lesk,
315: T. L. Lyon,
316: L. E. McMahon,
317: R. Morris,
318: R. Muha,
319: D. A. Nowitz,
320: L. Wehr,
321: and
322: P. J. Weinberger.
323: We appreciate also
324: the effective advice and criticism of
325: T. A. Dolotta,
326: A. G. Fraser,
327: J. F. Maranzano,
328: and
329: J. R. Mashey;
330: and we remember the important work of
331: the late Joseph F. Ossanna.
332: .sp 1
333: .in 4i
334: B. W. Kernighan
335: .br
336: M. D. McIlroy
337: .in 0
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