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* [TUHS] Lions notes, early history
@ 2020-11-02  5:07 Greg 'groggy' Lehey
  2020-11-02  5:21 ` Warner Losh
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From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey @ 2020-11-02  5:07 UTC (permalink / 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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* Re: [TUHS] Lions notes, early history
@ 2020-11-02 16:25 Norman Wilson
  2020-11-02 17:16 ` arnold
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From: Norman Wilson @ 2020-11-02 16:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs

There also exists a latter-day AT&T version of the Lions
book.  White cover with deathstar logo; standard US letter-
sized paper, perfect-bound along the short edge.  Two
volumes: one for the source code, one for the commentary.

I have a copy, and I bet Andrew does too: as I remember,
he got a handful of them from Judy Macor (who used to
handle licensing requests--I remember speaking to her
on the phone once in my pre-Labs days) when she was
clearing old stuff out of her office, and I nabbed one.

Norman Wilson
Toronto ON

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2020-11-02  5:07 [TUHS] Lions notes, early history Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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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