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From: Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu>
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Subject: Re: [TUHS] First book on Unix for general readership
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Another book from the same era--quite good--is A Unix Primer
by Ann Nichols Lomuto and Nico Lomuto, copyright 1983.

Before the title page appears an interesting endorsement:
"Prentice-Hall Software Series, Brian Kernighan, advisor

Doug