From: Michael Usher via TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
To: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] First book on Unix for general readership
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2020 17:46:33 -0700 [thread overview]
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I tried an ngram search on google, and came up with the following:
Richard L. Gauthier. October 1981. Using the Unix System, Reston Publishing
Co. ISBN 978-0835981644.
That seems to precede the Bourne book.
Available at amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Using-Unix-System-Richard-Gauthier/dp/0835981649
Michael
On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 5:28 PM Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
> Two thoughts ...
>
> 1.) Lion's was not a general book. It really was more of a kernel
> 'here-is-how-the-magic-happens.' It's still the best I know for that.
> BTW: it did not leak. It was purchasable from WE. But the cost was high
> and it was hard to get (you had a price you had a license and could not
> buy/order it at any book store - I don't think it had an ISBN or a library
> congress number originally).
>
> I know a couple of the schools (like CMU) wanted to use it for the OS
> course, but there was some hang-up associated with it in the mid-70s, which
> I don't remember - we did have a couple of sections passed out for a few
> lecture. But because of how it was bound (and short), it was photocopied s
> others have pointed out.
>
> I think Michigan managed to use the whole thing for their OS course, as I
> seem to remember that both Ted Kowalski and Bill Joy got copies there
> (although my memory is that they both had photocopies not the original
> Orange and Red bindings). Ted brought it to CMU, which is how I first saw
> it (and I think my original copy was a duplicate of his). And I remember
> seeing a photocopy in wnj's office at UCB. The first time I saw
> the official Red/Orange bound version was when I ordered it at Tektronix
> from WE a few years later, but I had to leave it there when I went back to
> grad school.
>
>
> 2.) The question asked about general 'Unix' text -- my favorite is still
> Rob and Brian's and I still recommend it (particularly to learn how to
> >>use<< UNIX/Linux today by doing the exercises), but it was not first.
> Steve's certainly was early and I thought it was a good explanation and
> until Rob and Brian became available was what I suggested when people
> asked. In fact, early Masscomp system's shipped Bourne's text, until Tim
> wrote the original 'UNIX In a Nutshell' that started his empire. That
> said, I do seem to remember there was another book around the same time
> (79-80 ish) that had a light blue cover that came from one 'PC-press'
> publishers. I wish I could remember the author and the name. I remember
> looking at a copy in Powell's in Portland when it came out and not being
> impressed.
>
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 8:08 PM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> ---
>> Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
>> http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
>>
>
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Michael Usher
Senior Wireless Network Engineer
University of California, Santa Cruz
musher@ucsc.edu 831-459-3697
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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
2020-04-06 0:27 ` Clem Cole
2020-04-06 0:46 ` Michael Usher via TUHS [this message]
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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