From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Ronald Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] First book on Unix for general readership
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2020 17:08:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200406000814.GH25105@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A36FF0A-7617-4B26-B4F3-FC183BF9A7FC@ronnatalie.com>
Do the Bell Labs technical journals count? I have a collection of Unix
papers that were puled out and published together in two volumes. That
stuff was a gold mine of information in the 80's.
On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 07:57:55PM -0400, Ronald Natalie wrote:
> The Lions book wasn???t really published back in the day. It was only targetted at his students in Australia (though copies leaked out).
>
> The manuals aren???t really a book (and again, they weren???t really published as a book) and most of the prose on UNIX was more in the form of articles than an entire book.
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Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
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2020-04-04 15:05 markus schnalke
2020-04-04 15:48 ` Nemo Nusquam
2020-04-14 15:27 ` Steve Mynott
2020-04-14 20:32 ` Warner Losh
2020-04-14 22:03 ` Warner Losh
2020-04-04 16:12 ` Michael Kjörling
2020-04-04 16:45 ` markus schnalke
2020-04-05 23:57 ` Ronald Natalie
2020-04-06 0:08 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2020-04-06 0:27 ` Clem Cole
2020-04-06 0:46 ` Michael Usher via TUHS
2020-04-06 1:41 ` Clem Cole
2020-04-06 1:46 ` Michael Usher via TUHS
2020-04-06 14:51 ` ron
2020-04-08 22:23 ` Greg A. Woods
2020-04-06 0:17 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-04-06 14:54 ` ron
2020-04-06 14:54 ` ron
2020-04-07 10:42 ` Derek Fawcus
2020-04-08 22:16 ` Greg A. Woods
2020-04-04 17:32 ` Warner Losh
2020-04-04 22:41 Doug McIlroy
2020-04-14 2:13 Doug McIlroy
2020-04-14 5:30 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-04-14 5:38 ` Warner Losh
2020-04-14 15:10 Doug McIlroy
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