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John Lions exact quotation from his book

John Lions exact quotation from his book

Posted Aug 20, 2003 6:58 UTC (Wed) by stuart_hc (subscriber, #9737)
In reply to: John Lions exact quotation from his book by neurocrapper
Parent article: SCO's proof bogus, Linux advocate says (InfoWorld)

Going by this page from Peer-to-Peer Communications Inc. it appears that the 6th edition was published in August 1996, not in 1977 as the Amazon page indicates. A press release from September 1996 for the publication of the 6th edition also describes SCO's help:

The Santa Cruz Operation's (SCO) December 1995 acquisition of UNIX from Novell rescued the book from limbo. Michael Tilson, SCO's Chief Information Officer and President of Uniforum, understood first-hand what a treasure the book was; he helped Salus and Ritchie obtain quick permission from SCO to reprint the book.


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John Lions exact quotation from his book

Posted Aug 20, 2003 14:48 UTC (Wed) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

The book covers 6th Edition Unix; there's no such thing as the 6th edition
of the Lions book.

6th Edition Unix came out in 1975.

Lions published his book analyzing the 6th Edition Unix code in 1977, but
it was only available legally to those who had a Unix source code license.

In 1996, old SCO OK'd the official re-publication of Lions' book.

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