The most well-known book that was suppressed in computing history! * used at MIT as a textbook on operating systems This is still the best explanation of how a "real" operating system functions after 20 years. Kenneth Thompson (Developer of the UNIX operating system).
We owe a debt of gratitude to everyone who worked to bring this book back into the public eye after it had been suppressed for years (as trade secrets) by various owners of the UNIX source.
This book, in my opinion, was the most significant one published in 1996. Review of Unix, June 1997 Since the late 1970s, "The Lions book," beloved by UNIX hackers and widely disseminated as a photocopy bootleg document, is once more accessible in an unrestricted edition.
The whole source code to an early edition (Edition 6) of the UNIX operating system, which is a gem in and of itself, is included in this legendary underground classic, which has been duplicated without change. John Lions' outstanding analysis of that code includes additional historical viewpoint articles that were uploaded in 1996.
As indicated by its continued use at MIT, Lions' combination of source code and comments was initially employed as an operating systems textbook, a function for which it is still ideally suited.
