9 Apr
2020
9 Apr
'20
12:23 a.m.
At Mon, 6 Apr 2020 10:51:05 -0400, ron(a)ronnatalie.com wrote:
Subject: Re: [TUHS] First book on Unix for general readership
I was going to mention this book as one I thought might be the first
book on Unix for a truly general readership. I bought a copy in 1982.
Not a very good book indeed. Horribly typeset. Content reminds me of
many of the early poor-quality O'Reilly books.
But it was available in 1981, a few years before K&P's almost infinitely
greater "TUPE" (though TUPE is targeted far more to programmers than
general users).
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Greg A. Woods <gwoods(a)acm.org>
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I tried an ngram search on google, and came up
with the following:
Richard L. Gauthier. October 1981. Using the Unix System, Reston
Publishing
Co. ISBN 978-0835981644.
Gosh, I'd forgotten about Gauthier, perhaps the worst UNIX book ever written.