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--- publications:manuals:pwb [2023/12/10 13:50] – segaloco
+++ publications:manuals:pwb [2024/06/06 08:10] (current) – [Release 3.0/System III] segaloco
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 The above photographs capture the cover of the Bell Laboratories-branded UNIX User's Manual Release 3.0 and the Western Electric-branded Programmer's Manual for UNIX System III Volume 2A.  Despite the contents in /usr/src/man/docs above suggesting the internal Release 3.0 documents were distributed like other versions in this line, as "Documents for UNIX", it seems the Western Electric distribution of System III instead produced these papers as a "Programmer's Manual Volume 2" set.
-Like other UNIX releases in this lineage, the synopsis and roadmap documents are present.  Interestingly, more UNIX/TS references can be found in both sets of documents.  The UNIX System III set contains a roadmap titled "UNIX/TS Documentation Road Map" with many references to the PWB/UNIX User's Manual 2.0.  This document typically contains a note at the top indicating which version it supports.  In the above docs folder, this target message indicates exclusively Release 3.0.  However, in the Western Electric documents, insteaed the documentation is said to apply to UNIX/TS, but that UNIX/TS and PWB/UNIX may be used interchangeably throughout the document.  Another mention of UNIX/TS is in reference to the UNIX/TS Shell Tutorial.  The roadmap itself is dated January 1980, 6 months before the June 1980 date on most UNIX Release 3.0 documentation.  An occurrence of the opposite also occurs, with the synopsis document in Release 3.0 being labeled UNIX/TS Synopsis and Overview of Facilities, whereas this document is labeled for System III in the Western Electric set.  Another oddity is the Western Electric document set still refers to MM as "PWB/MM Programmer's Workbench Memorandum Macros" and includes an older January 1980 reissue of the document as opposed to the April 1980 version included online.  This points to an adaptation of PWB/UNIX 2.0 into UNIX/TS and then subsequent absorption into UNIX Release 3.0, and possibly reliance on older documents for the Western Electric distribution.
+Like other UNIX releases in this lineage, the synopsis and roadmap documents are present.  Interestingly, more UNIX/TS references can be found in both sets of documents.  The UNIX System III set contains a roadmap titled "UNIX/TS Documentation Road Map" with many references to the PWB/UNIX User's Manual 2.0.  This document typically contains a note at the top indicating which version it supports.  In the above docs folder, this target message indicates exclusively Release 3.0.  However, in the Western Electric documents, instead the documentation is said to apply to UNIX/TS, but that UNIX/TS and PWB/UNIX may be used interchangeably throughout the document.  Another mention of UNIX/TS is in reference to the UNIX/TS Shell Tutorial.  The roadmap itself is dated January 1980, 6 months before the June 1980 date on most UNIX Release 3.0 documentation.  An occurrence of the opposite also occurs, with the synopsis document in Release 3.0 being labeled UNIX/TS Synopsis and Overview of Facilities, whereas this document is labeled for System III in the Western Electric set.  Another oddity is the Western Electric document set still refers to MM as "PWB/MM Programmer's Workbench Memorandum Macros" and includes an older January 1980 reissue of the document as opposed to the April 1980 version included online.  This points to an adaptation of PWB/UNIX 2.0 into UNIX/TS and then subsequent absorption into UNIX Release 3.0, and possibly reliance on older documents for the Western Electric distribution.
 ==== Release 4.0 ====
-{{:publications:manuals:release_4.0.jpg?direct&400|}}
+{{:publications:manuals:release_4.0.jpg?direct&400|UNIX Release 4.0 Documents}}
 [[https://gitlab.com/segaloco/pwb4u_man|UNIX User's Manual Release 4.1 3B20S (Reconstruction)]]
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 ==== Release 5.0/System V ====
+{{:publications:manuals:release_5.0.jpg?direct&400|UNIX Release 5.0 Documents}}
+[[https://archive.org/details/UNIXManRel5|UNIX Release 5.0 User's Manual]]
+[[https://bitsavers.org/pdf/att/unix/System_V_Release_1/301-926_UNIX_System_V_Release_1_Administators_Manual_Jun82.pdf|UNIX Release 5.0 Administrator's Manual]]
+[[https://bitsavers.org/pdf/att/unix/System_V_Release_1/301-905_UNIX_System_V_Release_1_Users_Manual_Jan83.pdf|UNIX System V User's Manual]]
+[[https://archive.org/details/@segaloco|UNIX Support Documents (Archive.org Collection)]]
+This manual is published in a few different formats for different distribution groups.  Initially, Release 5.0 is distributed internally by both Bell Laboratories and Western Electric for various applications, and then as System V as a commercial product.  Like the last two releases, these are comb-bound manuals accompanied by a set of descriptive documents, but unlike the last few releases, the documents are now split up into a number of different volumes, each concerning a different topic.  Much of this documentation is linked to above.  While the title pages of manuals have not had authorship information since Release 3.0, the commented out authors in this manual in System V are A.G. Petruccelli and W.J. Laauser.
+It is unknown if this occurred during Release 4.0 or 5.0, but there are different versions of the documentation distributed for general use vs use within Bell Telephone Laboratories.  These separate versions continue at least until System V Release 2.0 and are edited by S. Dealy.
+Pictured above are examples of various Release 5.0/System V documentation.  The two variants of the general use manual flank the Bell Laboratories-specific manual on either side.  All three User's Manuals have Administrator's Manual-equivalents.  Additionally, an Error Message Manual is distributed in a similar comb bind.  All of the Release 5.0 documents have their titles printed on their comb-binds, whereas previous generations were simply blank.  As for System V, these have black comb bindings and thus no printing.
+Below the manuals are two of the larger documents, displaying the same cover motif as the general manuals.  Documents like these were distributed either as binders as seen on the left, books as seen on the right, or report cover-bound manuals like those seen in other, older UNIX documentation but with the same cover motif produced on the report covers.  While all known documents distributed distinctly as System V have been identified and are preserved or on their way, several documents distributed specifically with Release 5.0 have thus far not been located and preserved.  It is assumed they would have a similar cover motif to these other documents.
 ==== System V R2 ====
+{{:publications:manuals:svr2_early.jpg?direct&400|UNIX System V Release 2 Early Documents}}
+pictured above are early System V R2 documents distributed by Western Electric and AT&T.  The upper left may represent System V R1 or R2, but in any case is targeting the 3B5 computer and presents a cover motif, a large orange square on a grey binder, that is visible in other Western Electric-branded binders of the time concerning UNIX and Documenters Workbench.  In the upper right is a Documenter's Workbench binder displaying the typical motif of other UNIX System V R2 documents distributed publicly by AT&T at the time such as the User's Manuals for the DEC and 3B versions of SVR2.  There were additionally small handbooks such as a vi handbook distributed with a similar grey AT&T death star motif at the time.  Finally, the bottom binder is another Bell Laboratories-specific issue of System V.  This binder is part of a set of 3 and represents the u_man portion of the binder.  System V R2 features the further split-up of the u_man of previous manuals into u_man and p_man (Programmer's Manual) sections distributed separately.  The other two BTL sections, Programmer's and Administrator's have thus far not been located or preserved.
+{{:publications:manuals:svr2_late.jpg?direct&400|UNIX System V Release 2 Late Documents}}
+Pictured above are later System V R2 documents distributed by AT&T.  The left bears a similar red cover motif to the binders AT&T was similarly distributing with 3B computers at the time.  The middle document is a series of HRW-published "UNIX Programmer's Manual" documents, likely harkening back to the Seventh Edition manuals which were published as trade books previously.  Finally, the right volume is part of a three volume set, published in small comb or wire bound form with striking yellow covers, concerning vi, C, and UNIX use in general.  They're terse handbooks designed to be kept at one's desk for easy reference and are referred to on the back of the User's Manual on the left (along with a reference to a User's Guide, which is of a similar appearance to the manual but glue bound and green.)
 ==== System V R3 ====
 ==== System V R4 ====