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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.
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