[TUHS] Your Most Prized UNIX Artifacts?

Bakul Shah via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org
Sun Jun 8 03:04:59 AEST 2025


Just this week I passed on my late friend Rob Warnock’s first edition copy of “The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD” book to a FreeBSD user who was very happy to discover it was signed by Leffler & McKusick!
[I need to make an online list of all the tech books I want to give away….]

> On Jun 7, 2025, at 12:14 AM, Pete Wright via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
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>> On 6/6/25 12:22, John Levine wrote:
>> It appears that segaloco via TUHS <segaloco at protonmail.com> said:
>>> What do folks have around that you're particularly thrilled to have among your UNIX-y possessions?
>> The license plate
>> A photo of a UNIX brand fire extinguisher.
>> A first edition of "UNIX for Dummies" (no surprise there)
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> A print of a draft of The Complete FreeBSD 4th ed. signed by Greg Lehey.  Still sitting in its original manila envelope by my desk.
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> A friend (thanks .ike!) got it and gifted it to me when I ended up in the hospital the night before I was supposed to attend BSDCan '05 and couldn't attend.  Lots of sentimental value for me in that one for me.
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> -pete
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> Pete Wright
> pete at nomadlogic.org
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