14 Apr
2020
14 Apr
'20
9:27 p.m.
On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 at 16:58, Nemo Nusquam <cym224(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 04/04/20 11:05, markus schnalke wrote (in part):
I think the wikipedia article meant Bourne's "The Unix System" was
the first general introduction to UNIX.
In the autumn of 1984 it was a recommended text book for an
introduction to computing course aimed at first year science
undergraduates at an English university.
They taught us awk programming and basic shell commands on a VAX
running BSD 4.1 using it. I still have a copy.
So by general readership they probably meant primer.
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Steve Mynott <steve.mynott(a)gmail.com>
cv25519/ECF8B611205B447E091246AF959E3D6197190DD5
Thus I now wonder what the first book on Unix,
intended for a general
readership was.
Not to be overly pedantic but what would be a "general
readership"?