What was amusing was seeing what I thought was a copy tucked away on the shelves of Kirk McKusick's library, next to weird things with odd labels like "BSD 4.5" (really something between what we know as BSD 4.0 and BSD 4.1 when the notion was the next BSD release tape would be called BSD5) next to more mundane ones like "V6" and "V32" etc. It's definitely a piece of folklore that turns up in the oddest places...

Warner

On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 9:20 AM Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:

Ditto, (actually I have three -- two copies of the new one to show some of the younger engineers at work). Having the text is wonderful, but it does seems like a heretical act to be grepping through sources as Tex files; when the original was in roff.

I wonder if the author as well as Dennis are both chuckling somewhere at all of us ;-)
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On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 11:10 AM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:

On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 8:13 AM Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> wrote:
On Wed, 09 Jan 2019 16:42:32 +1100 Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
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> I no longer have my Lions books on me, sadly enough (lost in a house move)
> but there certainly were some peculiar names in the kernel...

https://github.com/kanner/lions-book

Cool! I have two copies: one bootleg photocopy from the 80's and one copy of the paper that has the picture of the geeks on the cover photocopying something... This is a lot easier to grep :)

Warner