17 Nov
2018
17 Nov
'18
2:50 a.m.
On Fri, 16 Nov 2018, Jim Capp wrote:
PWB was great too, but what was most useful to me was
the "UNIX
programmer's manual" from Bell Telephone Laboratories (c) 1979, 1983
[...]
That sounds remarkably like the "Unix Documention" [sic] that Dr. John
Lions had printed, way before his famous books. The two manuals contained
all the man pages, an intro to "ed", "roff", C etc, which is how I
taught
myself Unix and C before he started teaching it (I was originally hired to
support RSX-11D!).
-- Dave