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UNIX history book.
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| be_qanda 2004-10-22, 3:57 pm |
| I'm looking for a detailed reference on UNIX history. I've seen lots
of details on various websites and found references to the following
books:-
A quarter century of UNIX
Life with UNIX
Could anyone recommend either of these or another as a complete
detailed account of UNIX?
Thanks.
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| Rich Teer 2004-10-22, 3:57 pm |
| On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, be_qanda wrote:
> A quarter century of UNIX
That book by Peter Salus is pretty good, from an anecdotal
point of view. It ispretty detailed and complete, but how
much so depenbds on what you're looking for...
> Life with UNIX
Dunno abot that one.
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| Dragan Cvetkovic 2004-10-22, 3:57 pm |
| Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> writes:
> It ispretty detailed and complete, but how much so depenbds on what
> you're looking for...
Rich, are you tryping again? :-)
Bye, Dragan
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| Rich Teer 2004-10-22, 3:57 pm |
| On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Dragan Cvetkovic wrote:
> Rich, are you tryping again? :-)
So it seems! Must be a lack of M&Ms (I bought 12 KG box of peanut
M&Ms to celebrate to publishing of my book; it took me almost a month
to eat 'em, and I gave a away a lot!)...
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| Brian Raiter 2004-10-22, 8:56 pm |
| > A quarter century of UNIX
> Life with UNIX
>
> Could anyone recommend either of these or another as a complete
> detailed account of UNIX?
Both those books are more anecdotal than attempts to be a complete
history. On the other hand, I don't know of any book that does attempt
to be a complete history.
b
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| Rich Gibbs 2004-10-22, 8:57 pm |
| Rich Teer said the following, on 10/22/04 12:58:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, be_qanda wrote:
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> That book by Peter Salus is pretty good, from an anecdotal
> point of view. It ispretty detailed and complete, but how
> much so depenbds on what you're looking for...
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I agree with Rich about the Salus book. Depending on what you're
looking for, there is also some information in Eric Raymond's _The Art
of Unix Programming_, Chapter 2:
<http://catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup...orychapter.html>
It is sort of anecdotal, too, but then I guess that tends to be the
nature of something that is largely oral history.
--
Rich Gibbs
rgibbs@alumni.princeton.edu
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| Steve Graegert 2004-10-22, 8:57 pm |
| Additionally, Éric Lévénez' diagram "History of Unix"
(http://www.levenez.com/unix/) is highly recommended. No details there,
but interesting insights into the evolution of almost any known Unix
system on earth.
\Steve
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| Kenny McCormack 2004-10-24, 8:56 pm |
| In article <Pine.SOL.4.58.0410221046490.17681@zaphod.rite-group.com>,
Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Dragan Cvetkovic wrote:
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>So it seems! Must be a lack of M&Ms (I bought 12 KG box of peanut
>M&Ms to celebrate to publishing of my book; it took me almost a month
>to eat 'em, and I gave a away a lot!)...
Where/how does one buy 12Kg of M&Ms???
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| Rich Teer 2004-10-25, 3:59 am |
| On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Kenny McCormack wrote:
> Where/how does one buy 12Kg of M&Ms???
I got mine from Costco. I think it cost somehting like $75
Canadian.
I think the real question is "how does one eat 12KG of M&Ms?".
The answer to that is "slowly, and give lots away!" :-)
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| John W. Krahn 2004-10-26, 3:56 am |
| Rich Teer wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Kenny McCormack wrote:
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> I got mine from Costco. I think it cost somehting like $75
> Canadian.
You're in Kelowna?
> I think the real question is "how does one eat 12KG of M&Ms?".
> The answer to that is "slowly, and give lots away!" :-)
You must have fed the whole town, and Vernon too. :-)
John
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| Rich Teer 2004-10-26, 3:56 am |
| On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, John W. Krahn wrote:
> You're in Kelowna?
Yep; are you around here too?
> You must have fed the whole town, and Vernon too. :-)
Nah - I like (peanut) M&Ms A LOT!
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| John W. Krahn 2004-10-26, 9:00 am |
| Rich Teer wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, John W. Krahn wrote:
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> Yep; are you around here too?
I'm in Vancouver but I've spent many summers working at the Army camp in
Vernon and have some friends in the B.C. Dragoons in Kelowna.
John
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| Rich Teer 2004-10-26, 3:58 pm |
| On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, John W. Krahn wrote:
> I'm in Vancouver but I've spent many summers working at the Army camp in
> Vernon and have some friends in the B.C. Dragoons in Kelowna.
Cool; it's a small world...
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President,
Rite Online Inc.
Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638
URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich
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