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50 changes and phototypesetter version 7

Thank-you for putting together this repository. The "new" archive format found in cont.a was distributed as part of the phototypesetter version 7, PWB/UNIX 1.0 and USENIX tapes.

In case you are interested in a newer kernel and toolchain than released v6:

50 changes

Regarding your letter from 1979 reprinted in AUUGN vol 1 no 3

I came across a directory called 'v6unix' which contains a new 'Bell' labs UNIX base system.

and the 50 changes

I got the "diff" listing of all changes to Bell Unix system proper from
"standard" version 6, which apparently means the currently distributed
version 6. There are some bug fixes which are not in my version 6, which
are in the currently distributed v6. Anyway, I've itemized some
50 changes, and sent the list to Ken for verification and comments.

see

tuhs/Applications/Spencer_Tapes/unsw3.tar.gz
usr/sys/v6unix/

phototypesetter version 7

UNIX News May-June 1976

New archiver - includes "ar.c", new "ld.c" which reads the new style,
and "arcv.c" which converts from old to new formats. The stinker is that
"ar.c" uses long (double-word) integers, which can only be compiled by
the new C compiler which we can't distribute yet. Therefore, executable
modules are included.

see

tuhs/Applications/Usenix_77/ug091377.tar.gz
1/new_ar/

tuhs/Tools/Tapes/newoldar.*

UNIX News November 1976

Also, a new tape is in the process of preparation, and should be
available as soon as it clears the lawyers, for the usual free license
and handling fee. It contains the new nroff, the new C, the new
I/O library (faster & smaller than anything to date), and a bunch of
other such things."

;login: August 1977

The principal speaker at the Phototypesetting session was Joe Ossanna.
He announced a new phototypesetting package, typesetter V7, which is or
soon will be available from Western Electric for a $3300 license fee.

A phototypesetter v7 license was required for the modified stdio/libS
distributed with 2BSD. AUUGN Vol 1 No 3

In order to get the new nroff/troff macro package and the "stdio" modifications, you must include
a copy of your license for the version 7 phototypesetter package.

not the phototypesetter tape, but see

tuhs/Applications/Spencer_Tapes/unsw3.tar.gz
usr/source/c_compiler/
usr/source/stdio/

tuhs/Distributions/Other/Interdata/interdata_v6.tar.gz
usr/source/stdio/
usr/source/troff
usr/doc/cdoc/newstuff.nr

As the interdata v6 has yet another ar format, I used a modified version
of rdar to extract source in some of the archives.