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 [[https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Dennis_v2/v2man.pdf|Second Edition]]
-The manual was initially published as the UNIX Programmer's Manual, and would retain this name throughout the various research editions.  The First and Second Edition manuals were written in roff(I) and consisted of 7 sections, identified by Roman numerals:
+The manual was initially published as the UNIX Programmer's Manual, by [[people:ken_thompson|Ken ("ken") Thompson]] and [[people:dennis_ritchie|Dennis ("dmr") Ritchie]], and would retain this name throughout the various research editions.  The First and Second Edition manuals were written in roff(I) and consisted of 7 sections, identified by Roman numerals:
     I.      Commands
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 Additionally, letters are now used as suffixes for some sub-categories in sections 1, 3.  Both sections contain new intro(x) pages explaining this and other conventions.  Section 1 now includes the communication (C), graphics (G), and maintenance (M) sub-categories.  Section 3 splits out math (M), standard I/O (S), and specialized (X) components into their respective sub-categories.
+This is the first research UNIX manual not prepared by [[people:ken_thompson|Ken]] and [[people:dennis_ritchie|Dennis]].  Instead, this manual was prepared by [[people:brian_kernighan|Brian (”bwk") Kernighan]] and [[people:doug_mcilroy|Doug McIlroy]].
 The above photograph depicts the HRW-published volumes from 1983.  Original V7 documentation was instead distributed much like that before: as printings from the original typesetting runs at Bell Labs.  While the second volume was often distributed as two, Volumes 2A and 2B, the HRW versions instead combine these into one Volume 2.
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 ==== Eighth Edition ====
-{{:publications:eighth_edition.jpg?direct&200|Eighth Edition Bell Labs Manual}}
+{{:publications:manuals:eighth_edition.jpg?direct&200|Eighth Edition Bell Labs Manual}}
 [[https://archive.org/details/unixtimesharingsystemprogrammersmanualeighthedition|Eighth Edition Volume 1]]
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 Section 1 no longer has sub-categories, and an additional Fortran (F) suffix is added in section 3.
-The system is now described as "the Eighth Edition system in use at the Computing Science Research Center of AT&T Bell Laboratories."  The date is removed from the top of the page, leaving just "Eighth Edition".  The ninth section uses decimal number values to separate different subsections.  Some papers are linked above as "Eighth Edition /usr/doc".  The current author is unaware of a currently preserved Volume 2, if one exists.  These as well as the Ninth Edition manuals were not distributed commercially like the Seventh and Tenth Edition manuals.
+The system is now described as "the Eighth Edition system in use at the Computing Science Research Center of AT&T Bell Laboratories."  The date is removed from the top of the page, leaving just "Eighth Edition".  The ninth section uses decimal number values to separate different subsections.  Some papers are linked above as "Eighth Edition /usr/doc".  The current author is unaware of a currently preserved Volume 2, if one exists.  These as well as the Ninth Edition manuals were not distributed commercially like the Seventh and Tenth Edition manuals.  This manual was prepared by [[people:doug_mcilroy|Doug McIlroy]].
-The above specimen was shared publicly by LinkedIn user Brantley Colie [[https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brantleycoile_my-copy-of-the-1985-8th-edition-of-research-activity-6601507217726324736-dQ_O|here.]]  It is a comb bound copy of Volume 1 featuring the AT&T Bell Laboratories logotype of the time.
+The above cover scan was provided by Doug McIlroy.
 ==== Ninth Edition ====
-As of this typing no material could be produced.
+{{:publications:manuals:ninth_edition.jpg?direct&200|Ninth Edition Bell Labs Manual}}
+[[https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V9|Ninth Edition Artifacts]]
+Linked above are current known Ninth Edition artifacts from a Sun porting effort, derived in turn from the Ninth Edition VAX sources.  No manpage sources are known to exist currently.
+The above cover scan was provided by Doug McIlroy.
 ==== Tenth Edition ====
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 Not mentioned in the intro is another section, section 10, concerning circuit design tools.  Additionally, section 4 gains an intro(4) page.
+This manual was prepared by [[people:andrew_hume|Andrew Hume]] and [[people:doug_mcilroy|Doug McIlroy]].
 Pictured above are the published copies of these documents distributed by Saunders College Publishing.  Like the Seventh Edition published volumes, the second volume is published as one.