Build - A Software Construction Tool. [In: AT&T Bell LaboratoriesTechnical Journal, July-August 1984, Vol. 63 No. 6 Part 2]. - [THE UNIX-BASED BUILD TOOL]

[N.Y., AT&T Bell Laboratories, 1984]. 8vo. In the original yellow wrappers. A nice and clean copy. Pp. 1049-1059 (Entire volume: 1 leaf + pp. 1007-1212). First description of the UNIX-based Build tool."The Build tool is used as a sophisticated method of generation and modifying software system. Build is being used successfully by a number of UNIX software-based projects at AT&T Bell Laboratories. [.] The Build tool is being used by a number of large software development projects as the primary software generation tool. Build plays a central role in the development strategies and standards used in these projects". (From the introduction to the present article)."Unix is unquestionably the most influential operating system ever developed" is has influenced virtually every subsequent operating system, including MS-DOS, Mac OS, Sun' Solaris, and many more". (Pfaffenberger, Bryan. Linux clearly explained, 1999, p. 3).