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Lions' Commentary on Unix

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Availability:In StockContributor:John Lions, Peter H. Salus (Editor)Series:Computer Classics RevisitedPublish date:1996-01-01Pages:260
Language:EnglishPublisher:Peer-To-Peer CommunicationsISBN-13:9781573980135ISBN-10:1573980137UPC:9781573980135Book Category:ComputersBook Subcategory:Operating SystemsBook Topic:UNIXSize:10.94 x 8.44 x 0.60 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SCJCE0A3AA
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).
Language:EnglishPublisher:Peer-To-Peer CommunicationsISBN-13:9781573980135ISBN-10:1573980137UPC:9781573980135Book Category:ComputersBook Subcategory:Operating SystemsBook Topic:UNIXSize:10.94 x 8.44 x 0.60 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SCJCE0A3AA
Publisher: Peer-To-Peer Communications

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6th Revised Edition

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