gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>) (11/21/84)
I am surprised that none of the newsgroups that I read has any mention of the new issue of AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Journal (Oct. 84), which is the second "UNIX special issue". I returned the copy I had borrowed, but as I recall, some of the articles I found most interesting were on the following topics: UNIX development history (Ritchie) The early days. Blit (Pike) How mpx works and why stream I/O is so neat. Blit debugger (Cargill) I think "joff" is one of the funniest program names ever. UNIX security issues (Morris, perhaps someone else) Administrators: READ THIS before the crackers do! Breaking "crypt" (Weinberger and someone else) Gives a good idea of how one goes about this sort of thing, although not much fundamental use is made of statistical approaches (they didn't need to!). Stream I/O (Ritchie) Stackable line disciplines (finally!). Perhaps someone else will post the actual table of contents.
jpl@allegra.UUCP (John P. Linderman) (11/24/84)
I don't think there is any prohibition about posting the table of contents. [I'll find out if there is.] With apologies in advance for any typos I may introduce, and in a format designed to minimize lines at some loss of clarity, it looks like: Page Author(s) - Title 1571 R. L. Martin - Preface 1573 A. V. Aho - Foreword 1577 D. M. Ritchie - The Evolution of the UNIX Time-sharing System 1595 R. Pike & B. W. Kernighan - Program Design in the UNIX System Environment 1607 R. Pike - The Blit: A Multiplexed Graphics Terminal 1633 T. Cargill - Debugging C Programs With the Blit 1649 F. T. Grampp & R. H. Morris - UNIX Operating System Security 1673 J. A. Reeds & P. J. Weinberger - File Security and the UNIX System Crypt Command 1685 L. Rosler - The Evolution of C - Past and Future 1701 B. Stroustrup - Data Abstraction in C 1733 M. J. Bach & S. J. Buroff - Multiprocessor UNIX Systems 1751 W. A. Felton, G. L. Miller & J. M. Milner - A UNIX System Implementation for System/370 1769 D. E. Bodenstab, T. F. Houghton, K. A. Kelleman, G. Ronkin & E. P. Schan - UNIX Operating System Porting Experiences 1791 J. Feder - The Evolution of UNIX System Performance 1815 P. J. Weinberger - Cheap Dynamic Instruction Counting 1827 J. P. Linderman - Theory and Practice in the Construction of a Working Sort Routine 1845 G. J. Henry - The Fair Share Scheduler 1859 M. J. Fitton, C. J. Harkness, K. A. Kelleman, P. F. Long & C. Mee III - The Virtual Protocol Machine 1877 T. E. Fritz, J. E. Hefner & T. M. Raleigh - A Network of Computers Running the UNIX System 1897 D. M. Ritchie - A Stream Input-Output System I called the circulation desk last week, and asked how one should go about ordering single issues. I was told that AT&T people should submit a purchase order, and outside people should call (800) 432-6600. Both should mention "select code 500-477". I have attempted to transcribe the phone number and select code as they were told to me, but I cannot be certain the information was correct to begin with. If anyone has trouble, please post a followup message. Don't call me. John P. Linderman Contents of Tables and Tables of Contents Department allegra!jpl
jsgray@watmath.UUCP (Jan Gray) (11/24/84)
The number provided (800-432-6600) is not available from Canada. Could someone call and ask what the regular (non-toll-free) number is? Thanks, Jan Gray (jsgray@watmath.UUCP) University of Waterloo (519) 885-1211 x3870
jpl@allegra.UUCP (John P. Linderman) (11/25/84)
> The number provided (800-432-6600) is not available from Canada. Could > someone call and ask what the regular (non-toll-free) number is? > Thanks, > Jan Gray (jsgray@watmath.UUCP) University of Waterloo (519) 885-1211 x3870 You could try (201) 564-2582, which is the circulation desk for the BLTJ here in New Jersey, if you are willing to spring for a long distance call (and thereby contribute to my salary). That's where I called to get the original information. Please do NOT call that number if you can use the 800 number. If you are not in a hurry (which is a good thing to not be in, because the issue seems to have sold out its first printing already), you could write to AT&T Bell Laboratories Circulation Department Room 1E-335 101 J. F. Kennedy Parkway Short Hills, NJ 07078 The blurb in the front of the Journal makes it look like they want payment in US funds, or a check drawn on a US Bank, and made out to the Technical Journal. Unfortunately, they don't say how much they want for the issue, so you may have to exchange a couple of letters. Since a full year (ten issues) costs $35 ($45 foreign), a single issue shouldn't cost too much. John P. Linderman Department of Foreign Affairs allegra!jpl
jjchew@utcs.UUCP (John Chew) (11/26/84)
In article <9987@watmath.UUCP> jsgray@watmath.UUCP (Jan Gray) writes: > The number provided (800-432-6600) is not available from Canada. Could > someone call and ask what the regular (non-toll-free) number is? I mailed to John Linderman (allegra!jpl) myself and he suggests either phoning the BLTJ circulation desk number of (201) 564-2582 (in N.J.) or (since the first printing has sold out) writing to: > AT&T Bell Laboratories > Circulation Department > Room 1E-335 > 101 J. F. Kennedy Parkway > Short Hills, NJ 07078 -- university of toronto computing services john j. chew, iii {cbosgd,decvax,harpo,ihnp4,utcsrgv,{allegra,linus}!utzoo}!utcs!jjchew
richard@bigtuna.UUCP (Richard Foulk) (11/26/84)
> The number provided (800-432-6600) is not available from Canada. Could > someone call and ask what the regular (non-toll-free) number is? > The number's no good from Hawaii either -- damn phone company! -- Richard Foulk (..islenet!bigtuna!richard)
jsgray@watmath.UUCP (Jan Gray) (11/26/84)
>> The number provided (800-432-6600) is not available from Canada. Could >> someone call and ask what the regular (non-toll-free) number is? > >> Thanks, >> Jan Gray (jsgray@watmath.UUCP) University of Waterloo (519) 885-1211 x3870 >You could try (201) 564-2582, which is the circulation desk for the BLTJ The above number is not for outside orders. The 800 number gets you the AT&T Customer Information Centre in Indianapolis, which is also reachable at (317) 352-8657. In case you want to write, the address is AT&T Customer Information Centre P.O. Box 19901 Indianapolis Indiana 46219 Now for the bad news. Individual copies of the BLTJ sell for $27.00 each. There are small discounts for quantity orders, and no educational discounts. Sigh. Jan Gray (jsgray@watmath.UUCP) University of Waterloo (519) 885-1211 x3870
ian@loral.UUCP (Ian Kaplan) (11/27/84)
> > The blurb in the front of the Journal makes it look like they want payment > in US funds, or a check drawn on a US Bank, and made out to the Technical > Journal. Unfortunately, they don't say how much they want for the issue, > so you may have to exchange a couple of letters. Since a full year (ten > issues) costs $35 ($45 foreign), a single issue shouldn't cost too much. > > John P. Linderman Department of Foreign Affairs allegra!jpl A number of years ago I ordered the original BLTJ issue on UNIX. As I remember the cost was relatively nominal ($5 or something like that). Given this past experience I assumed that Mr. Linderman was correct in stating that "a single issue shouldn't cost too much. Well I called the number listed in the previous posting which gave the BLTJ table of contents. To my shocked amazement and surprise I was told that the new issue of the BLTJ on UNIX was $27. I gave the "select number" in an attempt to make sure that we were talking about the same thing. It seems that we were. I asked if that price was not perhaps for a year's subscription. I was told that "no, it is the single issue price". Well at least they take major credit cards. Deregulation sure is saving the consumers a lot of money (I better not proceed in this vein or I will have to post this to net.flame). Ian Kaplan Loral Data Flow Group Loral Instrumentation ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdcc6!loral!ian 8401 Aero Dr. San Diego, CA 92123 (619) 560-5888 x4812
henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (11/30/84)
> A number of years ago I ordered the original BLTJ issue on UNIX. As I > remember the cost was relatively nominal ($5 or something like that). We did several substantial bulk orders at, I think, $1.50 each; it really was nominal in those days. I doubt that we will do likewise for the BLTJ. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry