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Lions' Commentary on Unix [Paperback]

John Lions (Author)
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This legendary underground classic, reproduced without modification, is two works in one: the complete source code to an early version (Edition 6) of the UNIX operating system and a brilliant commentary on that code by John Lions. Lions' marriage of source code with commentary was originally used as an operating systems textbook, and remains just as relevant today.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous book, Feb 10 2006
This review is from: Lions' Commentary on Unix (Paperback)
A _must have_ for any programmer or student interested in what goes on under the hood of an OS.

The PDP-11 code is dated but the concepts are still relevant.

Sadly, many universities now teach operating systems courses with Java; tantamount to giving driving lessons in an auto mechanics course.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing and insightful historical perspective, July 24 2002
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coffee_fan (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lions' Commentary on Unix (Paperback)
I learned about the existence of this manuscript 16 years ago, yet could never find a full version, until the book came. I have read most of it and it is beatiful. Many of the tradeoffs the early UNIX versions had are there. Context switching is done via coroutine jumps, the callout table is used only for the teletype, the very origins of the scheduler and swapper are neatly explained among many other things. PDP11 architecture is simple enough to make this book still a jewel for those interested in learning OS concepts and evolution and specifically UNIX.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, Dec 21 2001
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This is prably the best source/commentary book. Though some of the stuff is outdated, the core still is quite valid and gives useful insight into the implementation of the kernel.

I have gone through about 10-15% of the book, like filesystems and os initialization, and fouud it extremely helpful.

santy

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