From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Lions notes, early history
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2020 08:17:29 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2011030802090.6603@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201102050717.GG72955@eureka.lemis.com>
On Mon, 2 Nov 2020, Greg 'groggy' Lehey 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?
Nroff, in bound notes at the time; it did not come out in book format
until later (I suppose that it depends upon your definition of "book" vs.
"bound notes"... I was involved in it (you'll see my name in the
credits).
I helped to proof-read it, and I lent him our LA-100 for the draft copy.
He was one of the best Comp Sci lecturers that I ever had, along with Ken
Robinson (no longer with us) and Graham McMahon (ditto).
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-02 21:18 UTC|newest]
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
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 [this message]
2020-11-02 16:25 Norman Wilson
2020-11-02 17:16 ` arnold
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