On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 at 16:58, Nemo Nusquam <cym224@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 04/04/20 11:05, markus schnalke wrote (in part):
> > 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"?

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.