From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] First book on Unix for general readership
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2020 11:32:17 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfqhi_Eb4zcJ3bDZCamh76UK1PYWZRNoBA+b+rbvLC=qsw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1jKkMQ-2hN-00@marmaro.de>
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On Sat, Apr 4, 2020, 9:19 AM markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de> wrote:
> Hoi,
>
> found on Wikipedia:
>
> As well as the Bourne shell, he wrote the adb debugger
> and The UNIX System, the second book on the UNIX system,
> intended for a general readership.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_R._Bourne
>
> Thus I now wonder what the first book on Unix, intended for a
> general readership was.
>
> Bourne's book was published 1983.
>
> (``The UNIX Programming Environment'' was published 1984.)
>
>
> Was it Banahan and Rutter's ``UNIX -- the Book''? It says 1982.
>
> Could anyone share some background on that one? (The authors were
> from Bradford University.)
>
> I only have the German translation by Axel T. Schreiner, dated
> 1984. Haven't read the English original, but Schreiner's version
> definitely is worth to read (if you speak German). He added lots
> of footnotes, and it becomes apparent that he knows the system
> better than the authors. ;-)
>
>
> I'd like to get an understanding of the books in relation to each
> other. How does the Banahan/Rutter book fit into the picture? Why
> didn't Bell Labs write a user's book earlier? Were Bourne's and
> Kernighan/Pike's books reactions to it?
>
All good questions. I just bought both of these 9n ebay (there are several
copies available for <$10 so I didn't feel bad about sniping a rarity from
others in this group).
But I don't know the back stories.
Warner
> meillo
>
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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
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 [this message]
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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