14 Apr
2020
14 Apr
'20
10:32 p.m.
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 9:27 AM Steve Mynott <steve.mynott(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 at 16:58, Nemo Nusquam
<cym224(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think it's not the first primer, but it's one of the first. But I'll
know
more once I process through the half dozen books from the early 80s on Unix
that just arrived from ebay... I'll post a brief review and a bibliography
Warner
On 04/04/20 11:05, markus schnalke wrote (in part):
I think the wikipedia article meant Bourne's "The Unix System" was
the first general introduction to UNIX.
In the autumn of 1984 it was a recommended text book for an
introduction to computing course aimed at first year science
undergraduates at an English university.
They taught us awk programming and basic shell commands on a VAX
running BSD 4.1 using it. I still have a copy.
So by general readership they probably meant primer.
Thus I now wonder what the first book on Unix,
intended for a general
readership was.
Not to be overly pedantic but what would be a "general
readership"?