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Bezig met laden... Lions' Commentary on Unix (editie 1977)door John Lions
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. The automatic entry says there are 254 pages, and I'm reluctant to count them. There are no page numbers. It's close to what most of us held in our hands, in photocopies of photocopies of photocopies. I had access to a 14-generation copy. I didn't own it, but at least I knew someone who had one. When Peter Salus (and others) finally managed to get all the obstacles out of the way, and have this republished, in 1996, I ordered it from Amazon as an advance copy, holding my breath until it was finally published, and sent to me. I'm glad that it was published again, while John still lived. He was ill, even while the publication of this was going forward. This work has (as Peter Salus pointed out in his book, "A Quarter Century of UNIX") one of the best comments ever written in code. From Sheet 22: /* 2238 * You are not expected to understand this. 2239 */ 2240 if(rp->p_flag&SSWAP) { 2241 rp->p_flag =& ~SSWAP; 2242 aretu(u.u_ssav); 2243 } RIP John. Thank you.
After 20 years, this is still the best exposition of the workings of a "real" operating system.
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). Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Besides multicore, I would say that UNIX 6 already contains all essential parts of modern operating systems. Due to its simplicity, I thus found it well suited to learn about the fundamental workings of a real kernel, still today after over 40 year. It is also amazing how much of the concepts from this original UNIX version have survived into todays UNIX variants. A text from a time when operating systems (UNIX 6) and programming languages (C) had not yet parted.
To mention something negative, the author occasionally asks questions where it is not clear whether this is a point where author himself does not know the answer, or if he leaves the answer as an exercise to reader. Also, from a contemporary perspective, I found the use of the PDP-11 architecture annoying. ( )