Re: [TUHS] First book on Unix for general readership

On 4 Apr 2020 17:05 +0200, from meillo(a)marmaro.de (markus schnalke): I would be careful with that claim. First, it appears to lack a citation. (Someone here might be able to help with that.) Second, once you unpack it, the claim itself can be parsed in two ways, yielding quite different meanings. One way of parsing the claim is that Bourne wrote the book _The UNIX System_ which was the second book on the UNIX system. It was also a book which was intended for a general readership, presumably thereby setting it apart from the first book which was not intended for a general readership. The other way of parsing the claim is that he wrote the book _The UNIX System_ which was second in the set of intended-for-a-general-readership books on the UNIX system (as opposed to the set of books on the UNIX system which were intended for other than a general readership, or for _any_ readership, of which there may have been any number prior to this book), thereby setting it apart only from the first book on the UNIX system intended for a general readership. I'm not a good enough UNIX historian to know which meaning is correct. -- Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael(a)kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”