[TUHS] Anyone ever heard of teaching a case study of Initial Unix?

Jon Forrest nobozo at gmail.com
Thu Jul 4 03:39:35 AEST 2024



On 7/3/24 8:35 AM, Marc Donner wrote:
> There have been case study courses here and there over the years.  I 
> would argue that Lyons’s book of sources was the text for one.  An old 
> crony, Ed Smith, used to teach a comparative programming languages 
> course back in the day.  And I know someone at NYU taught a course where 
> people studied the source code of a variety of utilities.

In the late 70s or early 80s there was an OS class at UC Santa Barbara
taught by John Bruno that used the Lions books of V6 Unix sources and
commentary. He had to go through some kind of special efforts to
get the books.

Jon



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