From: "Greg A. Woods" <woods@robohack.ca>
To: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] First book on Unix for general readership
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2020 15:23:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1jMJ6D-0036tRC@more.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33f635bb3ea67f5cf14b46316ca3b6a6.squirrel@squirrelmail.tuffmail.net>
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1002 bytes --]
At Mon, 6 Apr 2020 10:51:05 -0400, ron@ronnatalie.com wrote:
Subject: Re: [TUHS] First book on Unix for general readership
>
> > I tried an ngram search on google, and came up with the following:
> >
> > Richard L. Gauthier. October 1981. Using the Unix System, Reston
> > Publishing
> > Co. ISBN 978-0835981644.
> >
>
> Gosh, I'd forgotten about Gauthier, perhaps the worst UNIX book ever written.
I was going to mention this book as one I thought might be the first
book on Unix for a truly general readership. I bought a copy in 1982.
Not a very good book indeed. Horribly typeset. Content reminds me of
many of the early poor-quality O'Reilly books.
But it was available in 1981, a few years before K&P's almost infinitely
greater "TUPE" (though TUPE is targeted far more to programmers than
general users).
--
Greg A. Woods <gwoods@acm.org>
Kelowna, BC +1 250 762-7675 RoboHack <woods@robohack.ca>
Planix, Inc. <woods@planix.com> Avoncote Farms <woods@avoncote.ca>
[-- Attachment #2: OpenPGP Digital Signature --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 195 bytes --]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-08 22:23 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=m1jMJ6D-0036tRC@more.local \
--to=woods@robohack.ca \
--cc=tuhs@tuhs.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).