[9fans] lions' commentary

[9fans] lions' commentary

[Vincent D Murphy]

i am looking for lions' commentary on plan9.

anybody know where i can find it?

Re: [9fans] lions' commentary

[George Michaelson]

  i am looking for lions' commentary on plan9.

We'd all love one, but didn't he write a commentary on UNIX V6?
  
I'm reminded of the Jimi Hendrix lyrics as used in the film "Easy Rider"

	"Now, if 6 turned up to be 9,
	 I don't mind, I don't mind."

-George
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Re: [9fans] lions' commentary

[William K. Josephson]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:58:01AM +1000, George Michaelson wrote:
> 
>   i am looking for lions' commentary on plan9.
> 
> We'd all love one, but didn't he write a commentary on UNIX V6?

He wrote one on Plan 9 as well, however it is not distributed.

Re: [9fans] lions' commentary

[George Michaelson]

  On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:58:01AM +1000, George Michaelson wrote:
  > 
  >   i am looking for lions' commentary on plan9.
  > 
  > We'd all love one, but didn't he write a commentary on UNIX V6?
  
  He wrote one on Plan 9 as well, however it is not distributed.

I sit corrected. and the spirit of the Hendrix lyrics stands!

-George
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George Michaelson         |  DSTC Pty Ltd
Email: ggm@dstc.edu.au    |  University of Qld 4072
Phone: +61 7 3365 4310    |  Australia
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Re: [9fans] lions' commentary

[Andrey A Mirtchovski]

judging from previous postings on this list, lions did write a commentary on
a very old edition of p9... unfortunately this is extremely outdated.. 

if you are looking for a commentary on plan9, someone is spain has a very
good one which covers the latest release 3. just check past postings for it.

i am sure people in bell-labs will be able to give you more insight on
lions' old commentaries (both V6 and p9) though :)

andrey
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, George Michaelson wrote:

> 
>   i am looking for lions' commentary on plan9.
> 
> We'd all love one, but didn't he write a commentary on UNIX V6?
>   
> I'm reminded of the Jimi Hendrix lyrics as used in the film "Easy Rider"
> 
> 	"Now, if 6 turned up to be 9,
> 	 I don't mind, I don't mind."
> 
> -George
> --
> George Michaelson         |  DSTC Pty Ltd
> Email: ggm@dstc.edu.au    |  University of Qld 4072
> Phone: +61 7 3365 4310    |  Australia
>   Fax: +61 7 3365 4311    |  http://www.dstc.edu.au
> 

[9fans] Re: lions' commentary

[Vincent D Murphy]

= Andrey A Mirtchovski <aam396@mail.usask.ca> [20010112 0006]:
> if you are looking for a commentary on plan9, someone is spain has a very
> good one which covers the latest release 3. just check past postings for it.

i couldn't find this in any archives, however nemo@gsyc.escet.urjc.es
kindly mailed me a URL off-list.  it is very good.

[9fans] Re: Re: lions' commentary

[Vincent D Murphy]

= Conway Yee <yee@bronze.lcs.mit.edu> [20010112 1843]:
> Could you send me the URL?  tnx.

the author has given me the go-ahead so,

http://gsyc.escet.urjc.es/~nemo/9.us.ps.gz
http://gsyc.escet.urjc.es/~nemo/9.ps.gz
http://gsyc.escet.urjc.es/~nemo/9.txt.gz

bear in mind that they're a work in progress.

Re: [9fans] lions' commentary

[David Arnold]

-->"George" == George Michaelson <ggm@dstc.edu.au> writes:

  George>   i am looking for lions' commentary on plan9.

  George> We'd all love one, but didn't he write a commentary on UNIX
  George> V6?

John Lions
"Lion's Commentary on Unix: With Source Code"
6th Edition, July 1996
Peer to Peer Communications
ISBN 1573980137

it's paperback, in a landscape format, and not too robust.  i got mine
at a Usenix conference a while ago ...



d

Re: [9fans] lions' commentary

[jmk]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, George Michaelson wrote:

> 
>   i am looking for lions' commentary on plan9.
> 
> We'd all love one, but didn't he write a commentary on UNIX V6?
>   
> I'm reminded of the Jimi Hendrix lyrics as used in the film "Easy Rider"
> 
> 	"Now, if 6 turned up to be 9,
> 	 I don't mind, I don't mind."
> 
> -George

I would have let this one by but as the spirit of the great Jimi was
invoked I feel compelled to reply.

Here's what appeared on the list last time this came up:

	From: "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
	Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 10:17:55 -0400

	> In the Peer-to-Peer edition of the Lion's book, there is a brief
	> mention of a booklet that Lion wrote commenting on Plan 9 source.
	> This was apparently during his last sabbatical (1989 or so).
	> Presumably this implies something on the order of the 1st edition.
	> Would THIS beast be available?

	No.  Even for the very very early version of the system it described,
	it was incomplete and somewhat confused.  John was really looking
	for a new version of the Unix kernel and didn't find it. I'm not sure
	if any copies exist, but if they do, I still wouldn't distribute them.
	They are a poor description of the system and an unworthy legacy for
	for John Lions.

	-rob

No machine-readable copy exists and Rob's last sentence is spot on.

--jim