From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>
Cc: UNIX Heritage Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Lions notes, early history
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2020 22:21:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfpAkOXOc9eq49ci748Q5bcQ4dcDKRmmjO_XY_X4JciN0Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201102050717.GG72955@eureka.lemis.com>
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On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 10:16 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:
> 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?
>
The pictures I've seen online are of a bound book, but lack photos of
what's inside. It contained a legend in the front saying you needed a 6th
edition license from AT&T to receive a copy. Beyond that, I'd love to hear
what others know about this detail.
Warner
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-02 5:07 Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-11-02 5:21 ` Warner Losh [this message]
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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