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Lions' Commentary on Unix
by John Lions

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• Paperback: 254 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.56 x 8.39 x 10.98
• Publisher: Annabooks; Sixth edition edition (August 1, 1977)
• ASIN: 1573980137
  
• Average Customer Review: Based on 7 reviews.
  
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: 34,887
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

The Way, June 2, 2003

Reviewer:   Satyadev Nandakumar (Ames, Ia United States/Thrissur, India) - See all my reviews

Any comments made on a superlative commentary on superb code would be largely superfluous. This gem should be part of any Operating Systems course. The greatest of the pleasures offered by the book is the opportunity to read the source code, version 6 of the UNIX Operating System. It is a unique opportunity to see the real masters at work!

Highly recommended, with Maurice J Bach's "The Design of the Unix Operating System" as a supplement.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Amazing and insightful historical perspective, July 24, 2002

Reviewer:   "pietro3" (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews

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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Beautiful, December 22, 2001

Reviewer:   Santosh Raghavan (Sydney NSW) - See all my reviews

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 Though some of the stuff is outdated, the core still is quite valid and gives useful insight into the implementation of the kernel.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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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

Greatest OS Introduction, June 28, 2000

Reviewer:   Chris McKinstry (Toronto) - See all my reviews

This book is a true computer science classic and will never go out of print. It is the greatest introduction to operating systems there is. I lived for years with a 5th generation photocopy and i am very glad to own a new, clear copy.

Buy it, study it, learn... give it to your children.

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