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I'm trying to piece together the names of the people who contributed to BSD Unix, according to the contents of the SCCS logs. (This is the version control system used at the time.) A number of names appear in a list created by Jonathan Gray, but 72 are still missing. To keep this process organized, I will create a community wiki answer with the list of the unknown contributors. Please add the names beside each identifier.

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    Are the actual SCCS logs available somewhere?
    – tripleee
    Feb 7, 2013 at 17:12
  • Have you asked at the BSD fora? Perhaps old mailing lists contain full names + logins? In any case, any further information on the login could be helpful: Area of activity, rough timeframe, ...
    – vonbrand
    Feb 7, 2013 at 17:59
  • @tripleee The logs are available on the CDs mckusick.com/csrg.
    – Diomidis Spinellis
    Feb 8, 2013 at 4:04
  • @nonbrand You mean Free/Net/OpenBSD, right? Good suggestion. I can extract more data, but I'd hope someone has saved that time's map so as to avoid doing manual searches.
    – Diomidis Spinellis
    Feb 8, 2013 at 4:07
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    By intersecting these names with "ucbvax" I was able to fill in a bunch of them. However I should note that I have no first-hand knowledge on the matter.
    – ruief
    Feb 11, 2013 at 10:26

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aki
akito - Akito Fujita
andrew - Andrew R. Cherenson ? (probably not Andrew Palfreyman)
aoki - Paul M. Aoki
bill
borman - (probably not Paul Borman
bugs
bush
carl - Carl Smith (apparently not Carl Lydick)
cda
claudio
craig - Craig Stanfill
csvaf
csvsj
dab - David Borman
denise
dist
dpk - (probably not Doug Kingston)
earl - Earl Cohen
ecc - Eric Cooper
edward - Edward Wang (not Edward Hirgelt)
elefunt
epg
erics
evan - Evan Kirshenbaum (??)
feldman - Steven M. Feldman
fitz
fortran
garrison
gray - Bob Gray
gusella - Riccardo Gusella (?)
halbert - Dan Halbert
harrison - Michael A. Harrison (not Peter Harrison)
helge - Helge Skrivervik
henry - Henry Spencer
jaap - Jaap Akkerhuis
jak
jas - Jim Shankland
jerry
jg
johnh - (probably not John Doc Hayward)
kas
kurt - Kurt Zeilenga
lam
layer - Kevin Layer
libs
mao
marc - Marc Teitelbaum (not Marc Kwiatkowski or Marc Tarpennig)
mark - Mark R. Horton (mark@ucbvax)
mis
mkm
mo - Mike O'Dell
opcode
orange - Carol Orange
pc
phil - Phil Lapsley
presott
pugs
rick - Rick Ellis
rt
sagersa - Alexander Sagers
samples
sechrest - Stuart Sechrest (?)
serge - Serge Granik
shantz
tapers
thien
trent
tut - Bill Tuthill
wall - Steve Wall
walsh
william - Bill Jolitz

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  • I have speculations for a few but I was hardly born at the time. I would propose to post a separate answer with references rather than to edit this one. Can you provide a reference for the one name you offer, akito?
    – tripleee
    Feb 7, 2013 at 12:14
  • Sure, go ahead! Akito comes from Jonathan Gray's list. I put the name there are an example of how we should complete the list.
    – Diomidis Spinellis
    Feb 7, 2013 at 14:48
  • Random googling suggests David Presotto, David Borman, maybe Nelson Beebe or K C Ng for elefunt.
    – tripleee
    Feb 7, 2013 at 17:46
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    Rev 3 thru 12 are from googling for "ucbvax!foo" and then I found a few more with "ucbernie!foo". UUCP bang paths are tricky. Note in particular that while ucbvax!foo is a match, ucbvax!foo@site is not (necessarily); it could mean that a message from foo@site was archived by someone at UCB.
    – tripleee
    Feb 11, 2013 at 10:55
  • Clever idea! Please contact me via email dds@aueb.gr.
    – Diomidis Spinellis
    Feb 12, 2013 at 10:42

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