| Lions' Commentary on Unix |  | Author: John Lions
Publisher: Annabooks/Rtc Books
Category: Book
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Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 6
Pages: 254
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 1573980137
UPC: 788581801376
EAN: 9781573980135
ASIN: 1573980137
Publication Date: August 1, 1977
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The most famous suppressed book in computer history! * Used as an Operating System textbook at MIT"After 20 years, this is still the best expostion of the workings of a 'real' operating system." --- Ken Thompson (Developer of the UNIX operating system)After years of suppression (as trade secrets) by various owners of the UNIX code, this tome has been re-released, and we owe a debt to all involved in making this happen. I consider this to be the single most important book of 1996. Unix Review, June 1997"The Lions book", cherished by UNIX hackers and widely circulated as a photocopied bootleg document since the late 1970's, is again available in an unrestricted edition. This legendary underground classic, reproduced without modification, is really two works in one: the complete source code to an early version (Edition 6) of the UNIX operating system, a treasure in itself! a brilliant commentary on that code by John Lionswith additional historical perspective essays added in 1996.Lions' marriage of source code with commentary was originally used as an operating systems textbook, a purpose for which it remains superbly well-suited (as evidenced by it's ongoing use at MIT).
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