{"product_id":"lions-commentary-on-unix-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","brand":"Peer-To-Peer Communications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50707577143570,"sku":"9781573980135","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1b3acdea-ca44-49da-9215-bb10b2fc4ed4.jpg?v=1734498771","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/lions-commentary-on-unix-9781573980135","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}