You could discover the Unified Theory of Man Pages! I've seen the (obviously nonstandard) man(9) before. I think it was for company-proprietary software specific to HP or IBM or something And annoying modifiers, like man(1n) The original man(6) list is historically interesting
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4.4BSD and its descendants also have man9 for kernel-internal documentation. You might be interested in Doug McIlroy's A Research Unix Reader https://archive.org/details/research-unix-reader/page/n84 …. Section 6 was originally "user-mantained programs."
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That man9 makes more sense than the abomination of Linux kernel "documentation", at least last I looked. Thanks for that great/handy link! I meant things like sky(VI) - obtain ephemerides, 1973, not at all well known compared to Ken T's spacewar. Also IIRC it's 100% lost.
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I have a strong interest; I did a serious chunk of Unix archaeology, credited in "The Restoration of Early UNIX Artifacts" https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/usenix09/tech/full_papers/toomey/toomey.pdf … ...and "A repository of Unix history and evolution" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10664-016-9445-5 … I'm not very famous so forgive my brag there
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Ah, fantastic! I used to follow the Unix Heritage Society but fell off the mailing list at some point
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There is a sky binary in /usr/games/sky in System III, by the way, but I don't know enough to try to disassemble it
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Ah. Then perhaps I was thinking of something else...a few things by Ossanna of troff fame, perhaps, who died young and so wasn't around to maintain any of his software Disassembling ancient code is...interesting. Or not, depending on one's interests
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