"EtB" == Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> writes:
Is there anyone left reading here?
Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> writes:
Is there anyone left reading here?Hi Eli. Sorry I can't help you... the googles aren't helping.
When I started out with Unix, someone gave me a second-hand book. This
was in the 1991-1992 timeframe. I learned a lot from that book and I
later passed the book on to another person for them to learn from.
Now decades later, I'd like to relocate a copy of that book, but I don't remember the title or author. General searches of second hand computer
books have not been fruitful so far.
Probably the best way I can positively identify it as the same book, is
the cover. This one had a picture of the planet springing to life[*]
at the end of _Star Trek: Wrath of Khan_ because the special effects had
some tenuous connection to Unix, such as the graphics software ran on a
Unix system.
That book taught me things about the standard utilities, kernel tuning
with adb, why ed is useful, etc. I'd kinda like to get the book and see
how well the advice has held up in Linux almost everywhere world.
Clearly adb isn't used for kernel tuning any more (and most people
don't even know about the assembly debugger, preferring to think of the Android program), but I still use ed knowledge, even if it mostly is
from the : line of vi / ex / vim.
Is there anyone left reading here? And who knows the book I describe?
A title and author would be great.
[*] Or whatever, it's been a long time since I've seen the book, and I
saw the book more recently than I've watched _Wrath of Khan_.
Elijah
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decided long ago that he didn't care about Star Trek
When I started out with Unix, someone gave me a second-hand book. This
was in the 1991-1992 timeframe. I learned a lot from that book and I
later passed the book on to another person for them to learn from.
Now decades later, I'd like to relocate a copy of that book, but I don't >remember the title or author. General searches of second hand computer
books have not been fruitful so far.
Not so long ago in comp.unix.questions, Eli the Bearded wrote:
Probably the best way I can positively identify it as the same book, isCould it be something like this System V/386 book? https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_attunixSysIXSystemV386Release3.2SystemAdministrato_33969124
the cover. This one had a picture of the planet springing to life[*]
at the end of _Star Trek: Wrath of Khan_ because the special effects had some tenuous connection to Unix, such as the graphics software ran on a Unix system.
Good luck finding it. Too bad abebooks.com has so few cover images
When I started out with Unix, someone gave me a second-hand book. This
was in the 1991-1992 timeframe. I learned a lot from that book and I
later passed the book on to another person for them to learn from.
Now decades later, I'd like to relocate a copy of that book, but I don't remember the title or author. General searches of second hand computer
books have not been fruitful so far.
Probably the best way I can positively identify it as the same book, is
the cover. This one had a picture of the planet springing to life[*]
at the end of _Star Trek: Wrath of Khan_ because the special effects had
some tenuous connection to Unix, such as the graphics software ran on a
Unix system.
"EtB" == Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> writes:
Do you still have a SOURCE license for your car? I understand they have
a lot of code in them these days.
When I started out with Unix, someone gave me a second-hand book. This
was in the 1991-1992 timeframe. I learned a lot from that book and I
later passed the book on to another person for them to learn from.
Now decades later, I'd like to relocate a copy of that book, but I don't remember the title or author. General searches of second hand computer
books have not been fruitful so far.
Probably the best way I can positively identify it as the same book, is
the cover. This one had a picture of the planet springing to life[*]
at the end of _Star Trek: Wrath of Khan_ because the special effects had
some tenuous connection to Unix, such as the graphics software ran on a
Unix system.
^^^^^^^^^When I started out with Unix, someone gave me a second-hand book. This
was in the 1991-1992 timeframe. I learned a lot from that book and I
Publication Year 1995^^^^
When I started out with Unix, someone gave me a second-hand book. This
was in the 1991-1992 timeframe. I learned a lot from that book and I
Publication Year 1995^^^^
Definitely too late. I had A/UX 2.0 and the Quadras had not been
released yet when I was reading the book. Thanks for the suggestion,
though.
Elijah
------
had forgotten the phrase "Genesis Device"
When I started out with Unix, someone gave me a second-hand book. This
was in the 1991-1992 timeframe. I learned a lot from that book and I
later passed the book on to another person for them to learn from.
Now decades later, I'd like to relocate a copy of that book, but I don't remember the title or author. General searches of second hand computer
books have not been fruitful so far.
Probably the best way I can positively identify it as the same book, is
the cover. This one had a picture of the planet springing to life[*]
at the end of _Star Trek: Wrath of Khan_ because the special effects had
some tenuous connection to Unix, such as the graphics software ran on a
Unix system.
That book taught me things about the standard utilities, kernel tuning
with adb, why ed is useful, etc. I'd kinda like to get the book and see
how well the advice has held up in Linux almost everywhere world.
Clearly adb isn't used for kernel tuning any more (and most people
don't even know about the assembly debugger, preferring to think of the Android program), but I still use ed knowledge, even if it mostly is
from the : line of vi / ex / vim.
In November 2017, I wrote here (c.u.question and c.u.misc):
When I started out with Unix, someone gave me a second-hand book. This
was in the 1991-1992 timeframe. I learned a lot from that book and I
later passed the book on to another person for them to learn from.
Now decades later, I'd like to relocate a copy of that book, but I don't
remember the title or author. General searches of second hand computer
books have not been fruitful so far.
Probably the best way I can positively identify it as the same book, is
the cover. This one had a picture of the planet springing to life[*]
at the end of _Star Trek: Wrath of Khan_ because the special effects had
some tenuous connection to Unix, such as the graphics software ran on a
Unix system.
That book taught me things about the standard utilities, kernel tuning
with adb, why ed is useful, etc. I'd kinda like to get the book and see
how well the advice has held up in Linux almost everywhere world.
Clearly adb isn't used for kernel tuning any more (and most people
don't even know about the assembly debugger, preferring to think of the
Android program), but I still use ed knowledge, even if it mostly is
from the : line of vi / ex / vim.
There were a bunch of suggestions, but no one had _the_ answer. I'm
reporting back today to say that I've figured it out.
I saw some references to Khan this week, so I tried my periodic search
again. Today, I used Bing image search for "{year} unix book" with years
of 1990, 1989, and then 1988. Up popped an image from Abe Books UK that looked right:
https://i.imgur.com/IzB33Px.jpg
Kaare Christian's _The Unix Operation System_, second edition, published
in 1988.
The preface to the third edition (1994) can be read at archive.org, (or
the whole book "borrowed" with an account) and the first page of that
preface (page 6 as scanned, page v as numbered), confirms it for me:
https://archive.org/details/unixoperatingsys00chri/page/n5/mode/2up
Both the first and second editions of this book were notable for the
cover, a single frame from the movie _Star Trek II, The Wrath of
Khan_. The image was created by Ed Catmull, Alvy Ray Smith, and
others at Lucas Film Ltd, and at the time was the state of the art
of computer graphics.
First edition was 1984, which would be too old to be the one I read.
I've found a copy, I think of second edition, for sale by Goodwill of
Seattle and ordered it today, ~$12 with shipping.
Archive.org's second edition copy:
https://archive.org/details/unixoperatingsys0000chri
You can't preview that one far enough to read about the cover.
Elijah
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those bing image search results included some distinctly not Unix results
Heh, glad you found your book and it jived with your memory. When you
first posted I was picturing something different, basically a planet undergoing transformation.
Think this is the frame from the film's terraforming sequence: https://youtu.be/jKOwIVjwSPc?t=115
Enjoy your book reunion!
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