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                      2: PREFACE TO THE TENTH EDITION
                      3: .PP
                      4: This edition of the 
                      5: .I "UNIX Programmer's Manual
                      6: appears on the twentieth
                      7: anniversary of the original research 
                      8: system pioneered by
                      9: Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.
                     10: It is dedicated to the memory of the late Lee McMahon, whose
                     11: influence pervades the system's approaches
                     12: to text processing and data networking.
                     13: .PP
                     14: As with previous editions, the manual 
                     15: reports on the system as it exists
                     16: in its original home department at AT&T Bell Laboratories.
                     17: Although related to the commercial System V and the academic
                     18: BSD systems, the research system is just what its title implies.
                     19: Some of the facilities 
                     20: have long since graduated from the lab into international
                     21: commerce; others are experiments in progress.
                     22: Their appearance here does not constitute an
                     23: announcement of any official product.
                     24: .PP
                     25: Much has happened between the landmark seventh edition
                     26: of 1979, the last edition to be published as trade book,
                     27: and today.
                     28: The magnitude of the changes may perhaps be most
                     29: visible in the papers gathered in Volume 2,
                     30: more than half of which are completely new.
                     31: Even `old stuff' has been substantially updated.
                     32: For example, Volume 2 gives more up-to-date information
                     33: about the popular
                     34: .I troff
                     35: family of typesetting software than does any other published work.
                     36: .PP
                     37: Careful examination of Volume 1 will also show
                     38: enormous changes since the seventh edition.
                     39: The distinctive theme is distributed computing.
                     40: Ritchie's coroutine `stream' input/output and the
                     41: Datakit\(rg virtual circuit switch realization by
                     42: Lee McMahon and Bill Marshall provide the basis for 
                     43: networking.
                     44: Peter Weinberger's network file system makes it painless.
                     45: Rob Pike's software for windowed bitmap terminals extends
                     46: the system right out to your fingertips, giving
                     47: a multiplexed interface to an already multiplexed system.
                     48: Dave Presotto's communication software brings
                     49: harmony to the Babel of real-world communications.
                     50: Norman Wilson's battles with entropy have made
                     51: the tenth edition system trimmer
                     52: than its less capable predecessors.
                     53: .PP
                     54: Besides the facilities just listed,
                     55: the manual describes dozens of completely new programs
                     56: in areas ranging from protocol verification to optical
                     57: character recognition.
                     58: Practically every page has been improved in
                     59: wording if not in function.
                     60: Instructive examples, often chosen to suggest nonobvious
                     61: uses of the system, have been added.
                     62: Sections 4, 5, and 8 have been expanded to
                     63: provide more inside wisdom about the system.
                     64: .PP
                     65: Over the course of years dozens of people at 
                     66: Bell Laboratories have contributed
                     67: to the software here described.
                     68: Their work, acknowledged in previous editions, is their
                     69: monument.
                     70: Acknowledgement is also made to the Regents of the
                     71: University of California for certain portions that
                     72: descend from work in the Department of
                     73: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at
                     74: Berkeley.
                     75: Active contributors to this edition include, besides
                     76: those already mentioned,
                     77: H. S. Baird,
                     78: J. L. Bentley,
                     79: S. A. Browning,
                     80: L. L. Cherry,
                     81: W. R. Cheswick,
                     82: M. A. Derr,
                     83: T. D. S. Duff,
                     84: C. W. Fraser,
                     85: D. M. Gay,
                     86: P. Glick,
                     87: F. T. Grampp,
                     88: E. H. Grosse,
                     89: D. R. Hanson,
                     90: G. J. Holzmann,
                     91: A. G. Hume,
                     92: B. W. Kernighan,
                     93: T. Killian,
                     94: A. R. Koenig,
                     95: T. J. Kowalski,
                     96: W. T. Marshall,
                     97: M. D. McIlroy,
                     98: S. C. North,
                     99: S. Peeters,
                    100: R. Pike,
                    101: S. A. Rago,
                    102: J. A. Reeds,
                    103: R. Sethi,
                    104: B. Stroustrup,
                    105: H. W. Trickey
                    106: and others.
                    107: Their computing activities have been made possible by the smoothly running
                    108: machines and Datakit networks managed by P. Glick,
                    109: F. T. Grampp, W. T. Marshall, and E. J. Sitar.
                    110: E. H. Carter consulted on book production.
                    111: .sp 2
                    112: .in 4.5i
                    113: A. G. Hume
                    114: .br
                    115: M. D. McIlroy
                    116: .br
                    117: October, 1989
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