TY - GEN
T1 - Documented unix facilities over 48 years
AU - Spinellis, Diomidis
PY - 2018/5/28
Y1 - 2018/5/28
N2 - The documented Unix facilities data set provides the details regarding the evolution of 15 596 unique facilities through 93 versions of Unix over a period of 48 years. It is based on the manual transcription of early scanned documents, on the curation of text obtained through optical character recognition, and on the automatic extraction of data from code available on the Unix History Repository. The data are categorized into user commands, system calls, C library functions, devices and special files, file formats and conventions, games et. al., miscellanea, system maintenance procedures and commands, and system kernel interfaces. A timeline view allows the visualization of the evolution across releases. The data can be used for empirical research regarding API evolution, system design, as well as technology adoption and trends.
AB - The documented Unix facilities data set provides the details regarding the evolution of 15 596 unique facilities through 93 versions of Unix over a period of 48 years. It is based on the manual transcription of early scanned documents, on the curation of text obtained through optical character recognition, and on the automatic extraction of data from code available on the Unix History Repository. The data are categorized into user commands, system calls, C library functions, devices and special files, file formats and conventions, games et. al., miscellanea, system maintenance procedures and commands, and system kernel interfaces. A timeline view allows the visualization of the evolution across releases. The data can be used for empirical research regarding API evolution, system design, as well as technology adoption and trends.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85051661977&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3196398.3196476
DO - 10.1145/3196398.3196476
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85051661977
SN - 9781450357166
T3 - Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering
SP - 58
EP - 61
BT - Proceedings - 2018 ACM/IEEE 15th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2018
PB - IEEE
T2 - 15th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mining Software Repositories, MSR 2018, co-located with the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2018
Y2 - 28 May 2018 through 29 May 2018
ER -