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not sure if originally released as such, but at one point, part of a larger collection:

https://docs.freebsd.org/44doc/

https://www.netbsd.org/docs/bsd/lite2/usd.html

(missing papers were redacted due to USL vs UCB suit; most are floating around the net if you google hard enough for them)

was also released in in spiral-bound print form through USENIX for at least 4.3BSD (and I think one or both of 4.2BSD or 4.4BSD).

if you see references to 'USD' or 'PSD' or 'SMM' in manual pages, they are referring to this.

shameless opportunity for a personal take:

Unix from v7-4.4BSD was always a self-contained and self-hosting source+binary+documentation collection with a common source lineage to bell labs and its surrounding culture; therefore opengroup certified posix is not unix, despite whatever copyright law might actually say.



You can find the original yacc and lex papers in Google scholar and elsewhere by the way. I haven't checked for m4 yet though. Original ed(1) paper here too [1]

1. http://www.verticalsysadmin.com/vi/a_tutorial_introduction_t...




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