2 Nov
2020
2 Nov
'20
8:26 p.m.
Andrew - can't speak for the original, but the BTL version was red and
orange and was perfect bound. But, I was not on 11x17 - it must have been
printed on A3 paper, as copying was always a little funny (maybe it was on
traditional 'green bar' size 14 7/8 x 11 - I don't remember - but my copy
of the original was on US 11x17).
Ordering it originally was difficult. I remember that we tried to order a
copy for Tektronix in the summer/fall of 1979 because I had my n-th
generation xerographic copy that I had brought from CMU and Tek wanted to
legitimate copy. IIRC, I wrote the PO request and it bounced back from Tek
purchasing because it had been denied by somebody at AT&T. We had to call
the right person (Al Arms if memory serves me), and then I had the restart
on the Tek side, but we did eventually get an official version - which
as on my desk for a few years [Of course, we immediately made more copies
-- I think I made them for Steve Glaser, Mike Zuhl, Ward Cunningham and
possibly Jon if he did not yet have a copy from his BTL days].
When I left Tek I gave the original Tektronix copy of the two books to
Terry Laskodi. I have wondered what happened to that copy after he
tragically died in the early 1980s. I fear it was tossed by someone that
had no idea what its value was.
Clem
On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 2:44 AM Andrew Hume <andrew(a)humeweb.com> wrote:
i was a TA for the course which used this as a
textbook.
my memory is little faded on this (it was on the other side of my stroke),
but i believe they were perfect bound (cloth strip and glue) and had
two different colors for the covers (i want to say orange and red).
they might have been just stapled but they were thick enough that staples
might have been insufficient.
i certainly remember john printing them off on the DEC printer.
as for the permissions, i can’t recall anything at the time (this was
about 45 years ago),
but do remember the fuss at the Labs when Bell Labs started printing their
own
high security copies just a couple of years later.
andrew hume
On Nov 1, 2020, at 9:07 PM, Greg
'groggy' Lehey <grog(a)lemis.com> wrote:
Warner Losh and I have been discussing the early history of John
Lions' "A commentary on the Sixth Edition UNIX Operating System".
I've been hosting Warren Toomey's version (with some correction of
scan errors) at http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/Lions/ for
some years now, and my understanding had been that the book hadn't
been published, just photocopied, until Warren posted it on
alt.folklore.computers in 1994. But now it seems that the "book" had
been published by UNSW when Lions held the course, and only later was
the license revoked. Does anybody have any insights? What
restrictions were there on its distribution? What was the format?
Was it a real book, or just bound notes?
Greg
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