On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 9:27 AM Steve Mynott <steve.mynott@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 at 16:58, Nemo Nusquam <cym224@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 04/04/20 11:05, markus schnalke wrote (in part):
> > > Thus I now wonder what the first book on Unix, intended for a general
> > > readership was.
> > Not to be overly pedantic but what would be a "general readership"?
>
> I think the wikipedia article meant Bourne's "The Unix System"  was
> the first general introduction to UNIX.
>
> In the autumn of 1984 it was a recommended text book for an
> introduction to computing course aimed at first year science
> undergraduates at an English university.
>
> They taught us awk programming and basic shell commands on a VAX
> running BSD 4.1 using it. I still have a copy.
>
> So by general readership they probably meant primer.
>

I think it's not the first primer, but it's one of the first. But I'll know
more once I process through the half dozen books from the early 80s on Unix
that just arrived from ebay... I'll post a brief review and a bibliography


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