Lions J. Lions' Commentary on Unix

6 edition: Peer to Peer Communications/Annabook, 1977 — 254 p.
The most famous suppressed book in computer history! Used as an Operating System textbook at MIT"After 20 years, this is still the best expostion of the workings of a 'real' operating system." — Ken Thompson (Developer of the Unix operating system)After years of suppression (as trade secrets) by various owners of the Unix code, this tome has been re-released, and we owe a debt to all involved in making this happen. I consider this to be the single most important book of 1996. Unix Review, June 1997" The Lions book", cherished by Unix hackers and widely circulated as a photocopied bootleg document since the late 1970's, is again available in an unrestricted edition. This legendary underground classic, reproduced without modification, is really two works in one: the complete source code to an early version (Edition 6) of the Unix operating system, a treasure in itself! a brilliant commentary on that code by John Lionswith additional historical perspective essays added in 1996.Lions' marriage of source code with commentary was originally used as an operating systems textbook, a purpose for which it remains superbly well-suited (as evidenced by it's ongoing use at MIT).