From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: (qmail 21649 invoked from network); 4 Apr 2020 15:19:27 -0000 Received-SPF: pass (minnie.tuhs.org: domain of minnie.tuhs.org designates 45.79.103.53 as permitted sender) receiver=inbox.vuxu.org; client-ip=45.79.103.53 envelope-from= Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with UTF8ESMTPZ; 4 Apr 2020 15:19:27 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 6E5759C628; Sun, 5 Apr 2020 01:19:23 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8336C9C204; Sun, 5 Apr 2020 01:18:55 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id E6E6C9C203; Sun, 5 Apr 2020 01:18:52 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 804 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Sun, 05 Apr 2020 01:18:52 AEST Received: from marmaro.de (marmaro.de [176.28.23.198]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28C439C14A for ; Sun, 5 Apr 2020 01:18:51 +1000 (AEST) Received: by marmaro.de (masqmail 0.3.6-dev, from userid 1000) id 1jKkMQ-2hN-00 for ; Sat, 04 Apr 2020 17:05:26 +0200 To: tuhs@tuhs.org User-Agent: meillo's mail handler (mmh) X-License: CC0 (http://marmaro.de/rights) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <10376.1586012726.1@marmaro.de> Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2020 17:05:26 +0200 From: markus schnalke Message-ID: <1jKkMQ-2hN-00@marmaro.de> Subject: [TUHS] First book on Unix for general readership X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" Hoi, found on Wikipedia: As well as the Bourne shell, he wrote the adb debugger and The UNIX System, the second book on the UNIX system, intended for a general readership. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_R._Bourne Thus I now wonder what the first book on Unix, intended for a general readership was. Bourne's book was published 1983. (``The UNIX Programming Environment'' was published 1984.) Was it Banahan and Rutter's ``UNIX -- the Book''? It says 1982. Could anyone share some background on that one? (The authors were from Bradford University.) I only have the German translation by Axel T. Schreiner, dated 1984. Haven't read the English original, but Schreiner's version definitely is worth to read (if you speak German). He added lots of footnotes, and it becomes apparent that he knows the system better than the authors. ;-) I'd like to get an understanding of the books in relation to each other. How does the Banahan/Rutter book fit into the picture? Why didn't Bell Labs write a user's book earlier? Were Bourne's and Kernighan/Pike's books reactions to it? meillo