{"product_id":"lions-commentary-on-unix-john-lions-9781573980135","title":"Lions' Commentary on Unix","description":"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).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Lions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1573980137\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781573980135\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peer-To-Peer Communications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.94h x 8.44w x 0.60d","brand":"John Lions","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43994281509119,"sku":"9781573980135","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_aa033ebe-f9da-42de-89b5-49f3c10430e5.jpg?v=1683329212","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lions-commentary-on-unix-john-lions-9781573980135","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}