From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: UNIX Heritage Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Lions notes, early history
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 16:07:17 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201102050717.GG72955@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
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Warner Losh and I have been discussing the early history of John
Lions' "A commentary on the Sixth Edition UNIX Operating System".
I've been hosting Warren Toomey's version (with some correction of
scan errors) at http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/Lions/ for
some years now, and my understanding had been that the book hadn't
been published, just photocopied, until Warren posted it on
alt.folklore.computers in 1994. But now it seems that the "book" had
been published by UNSW when Lions held the course, and only later was
the license revoked. Does anybody have any insights? What
restrictions were there on its distribution? What was the format?
Was it a real book, or just bound notes?
Greg
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next reply other threads:[~2020-11-02 5:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-02 5:07 Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2020-11-02 5:21 ` Warner Losh
2020-11-02 9:51 ` Warren Toomey
2020-11-02 10:26 ` Ed Bradford
2020-11-02 11:04 ` arnold
2020-11-03 1:16 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-11-02 7:21 ` Andrew Hume
2020-11-02 7:59 ` David Arnold
2020-11-02 14:26 ` Clem Cole
2020-11-02 21:17 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-11-02 16:25 Norman Wilson
2020-11-02 17:16 ` arnold
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