The Art of Unix Programming
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The author utilizes a comparative approach to explaining Unix by contrasting it to other operating systems including desktop-oriented ones such as Microsoft Windows and the classic Mac OS to ones with research roots such as EROS and Plan 9 from Bell Labs. The book was published by Addison-Wesley, September 17, 2003, ISBN 0-13-142901-9 and is also available online, under a Creative Commons license with additional clauses.
Contributors
The book contains many contributions, quotations and comments from UNIX gurus past and present. These include:
- Ken Arnold (author of curses and co-author of Rogue)
- Steve Bellovin
- Stuart Feldman
- Jim Gettys
- Stephen C. Johnson
- Brian Kernighan
- David Korn
- Mike Lesk
- Doug McIlroy
- Marshall Kirk McKusick
- Keith Packard
- Henry Spencer
- Ken Thompson