[TUHS] First book on Unix for general readership

Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
Mon Apr 6 10:08:14 AEST 2020


Do the Bell Labs technical journals count?  I have a collection of Unix
papers that were puled out and published together in two volumes.  That
stuff was a gold mine of information in the 80's.

On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 07:57:55PM -0400, Ronald Natalie wrote:
> The Lions book wasn???t really published back in the day.   It was only targetted at his students in Australia (though copies leaked out).
> 
> The manuals aren???t really a book (and again, they weren???t really published as a book) and most of the prose on UNIX was more in the form of articles than an entire book.

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