The first Unix Programmer’s Manual, released in 1971 (free PDF)

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by Raspberry Pi / Arduino / Adafruit at 03 Nov, 19:47 UTC

MIT CSAIL marked the anniversary on X: Bell Labs released the first Unix Programmer’s Manual in November 1971. The post links a free PDF of the third edition, and credits Diomidis Spinellis (@CoolSWEng) for the pointer. The manual set the pattern that man pages still follow. One short page per…

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• T1The first Unix Programmer’s Manual, released in 1971 (free PDF)Raspberry Pi / Arduino / Adafruit03 Nov, 19:47