9 Apr
2020
9 Apr
'20
12:16 a.m.
At Tue, 7 Apr 2020 11:42:51 +0100, Derek Fawcus <dfawcus+lists-tuhs(a)employees.org>
wrote:
Subject: Re: [TUHS] First book on Unix for general readership
On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 07:57:55PM -0400, Ronald Natalie wrote:
Indeed the Unix manuals were available as printed books. Volume One was
the manual pages and Volume Two the articles from /usr/doc. I remember
seeing soft-cover bound copies of the 7th Edition manuals, first in
someone's collection, then for sale, probably in the Computer Literacy
bookshop on Lawrence in Sunnyvale, I think with a dark red cover on the
ones I saw there. For some reason I never acquired a copy (probably
because by then I already had several other sets of Unix manuals,
including a complete set of boxed AT&T manuals.
I think the next time this happened in the exact same way was with the
"Unix Research System Tenth Edition" books published by Saunders College
Publishing in 1990. (Which I probably bought at Computer Literacy.)
There were also of course 4.4BSD manuals published and printed jointly
by The USENIX Association and O'Reilly & Associates in 1994.
The manuals aren’t really a book (and again, they weren’t really published as a book)
A bit later on but...
I'm prettry sure I managed to read the man pages published as a book while
at Uni, so between '86 and '90. I found it in the University Library.
It was published by Western Electric, and had either a dark blue or black cover. However, there were books of System V man pages
published, since I bought
some of them.
Yes, Prentice Hall's "UNIX System V/386" manuals from 1988 grace my
shelves, along with an incomplete set of the UNIX Press "SVR4" manuals
from 1992.
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