{"product_id":"lions-commentary-on-unix-0788581801376","title":"Lions' Commentary on Unix","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLions' Commentary on Unix\u003c\/strong\u003e by Lions, John. paperback edition. ISBN: 0788581801376.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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 1970s, 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 its ongoing use at MIT).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Peer-To-Peer Communications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665998962741,"sku":"ByrdShop_1573980137","price":63.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781573980135_15fb7f42-4dc4-4bc9-82fb-f9aec1c0fb71.jpg?v=1782449864","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/lions-commentary-on-unix-0788581801376","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}