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I believe this book was once illegal, due to IP battles over Unix. I bought a copy of it from amazon, and the cover shows illicit photocopying in action. https
by adamgordonbell 2y ago
I believe this book was once illegal, due to IP battles over Unix. I bought a copy of it from amazon, and the cover shows illicit photocopying in action.
https://www.amazon.ca/Lions-Commentary-Unix-John/dp/1573980137 https://www.amazon.ca/Lions-Commentary-Unix-John/dp/15739801...
this repo has many more versions of unix source:
https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo
I used the book, or tried to use it, to track down the original chroot code, for my own little container implementation for a talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89ESCBzM-3Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89ESCBzM-3Q
- chasil 2y agoThere is a wiki with details. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Commentary_on_the_UNIX_Operating_System#:~:text=A%20Commentary%20on%20the%20Sixth%20Edition%20UNIX https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Commentary_on_the_UNIX_Ope...
- pjmlp 2y agoIt was, it only goes to proof that had AT&T been allowed to profit from UNIX, it would not have widespread as it did, especially if it had the same price tag as OSes from IBM, DEC, Wang,...
- kjs3 2y agoIt was; it was covered by the AT&T Unix source license. I have a copy that is an actual n-th generation photocopy I got in the mid-80s from an osdev buddy.
- kps 2y agoLikewise, I still have an nᵗʰ generation photocopy I made in the mid '80s. (My employer at the time had a source license and an n-1ᵗʰ generation photocopy.)
- dbcurtis 2y agoOh how fun! I have a copy of the modern paperback reprint of the Lyons book. But my kid is into book-binding, and I’ve always wanted a scruffy, Nth-generation photo-copy so that I could give it the full medieval-monk leather-bound treatment. Just for the absurdity of it all.