This is an online version of the hardcopy manual given to new undergraduates by the Computer Science department at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth in the late 80s/early 90s. It was intended to assist them in finding their way around the SunOS computing environment provided by the department on which students were to undertake their assignments.
I am not sure of the provenance of this documentation. While the cover states "Copyright 1979, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated" (and allows that copies may be made by 'holders of a UNIX software license'), it also shows the department name in the top right corner. Whether this Handbook was ever released by Bell Labs in this form, or whether the department simply collated relevant papers and manuals from Bell into this format is not clear. I haven't come across an equivalent to this collection online (only documents such as the 'UNIX Programmers Manual').
My own copy of the Handbook is dated 10/OCT/88, but I have chosen links to the closest matching equivalent contents found via Google.
This collection functions as both a valuable reminder of the original UNIX documentation, in many cases written by the pioneering engineers themselves, and as an introduction to basic UNIX command line usage that may still be useful for new users. Most if not all of the examples here should still work on a modern UNIX or UNIX-equivalent system such as Linux. However, obviously it will not include later developments such as the GNU utilities and modern desktop environments.
It also tells you how to pronounce 'vi' correctly.
For more information on the background behind this project, see this blog post and this one.
If you find any broken links or have suggestions for improvement, please either get in touch via Github or submit a pull request. Note that I'm not particularly interested in adding documentation about later UNIX features.
Copyright of the individual contents remain with the original organisations and their successors. As I have only provided links to publically accessible online versions of these articles, I assume this representation is exempt from copyright concerns. However, the modern Internet being what it is, I am sure if anyone else's opinion differs then I will swiftly hear about it.
...But note that is not the ethos under which UNIX originally propagated.
(If you own one of the sites I've linked to and would prefer not to have the link included, please let me know. All links were retrieved from Google.)
Ade Rixon, Big Bubbles (No Troubles)