Download Lions' Commentary on Unix

Edition: 6
Release: 1977-08-01
Publisher: Annabooks/Rtc Books
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 1573980137



Lions' Commentary on Unix

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. Free download Lions' Commentary on Unix books collection in PDF, EPUB, FB2, MOBI, and TXT formats. --- 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. Best deals ebooks download Lions' Commentary on Unix on amazon.ions' 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). Lions' Commentary on Unix with free ebook downloads available via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, and hotfile.

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