3 Nov
2020
3 Nov
'20
3:17 a.m.
On Mon, 2 Nov 2020, Greg 'groggy' Lehey 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?
Nroff, in bound notes at the time; it did not come out in book format
until later (I suppose that it depends upon your definition of "book" vs.
"bound notes"... I was involved in it (you'll see my name in the
credits).
I helped to proof-read it, and I lent him our LA-100 for the draft copy.
He was one of the best Comp Sci lecturers that I ever had, along with Ken
Robinson (no longer with us) and Graham McMahon (ditto).
-- Dave