From: Steve Mynott <steve.mynott@gmail.com>
To: Nemo Nusquam <cym224@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] First book on Unix for general readership
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 16:27:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANuZA8Rag1Q93uMnB9RMobxzsC=EHRqtY+7wKcNbOhOJYxQc+A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <154b6bec-aaaf-4c40-54b9-4409e0940a05@gmail.com>
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.
--
Steve Mynott <steve.mynott@gmail.com>
cv25519/ECF8B611205B447E091246AF959E3D6197190DD5
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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 [this message]
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
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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