John Lions (1937–1998)
Auteur de Lions' Commentary on Unix
Œuvres de John Lions
UNSW Unix Primer 1981 1 exemplaire
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- Date de naissance
- 1937-01-19
- Date de décès
- 1998-12-05
- Sexe
- male
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- Œuvres
- 2
- Membres
- 176
- Popularité
- #121,982
- Évaluation
- 4.5
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 1
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Besides multicore, I would say that UNIX 6 already contains all essential parts of modern operating systems. Due to its simplicity, I thus found it well suited to learn about the fundamental workings of a real kernel, still today after over 40 year. It is also amazing how much of the concepts from this original UNIX version have survived into todays UNIX variants. A text from a time when operating systems (UNIX 6) and programming languages (C) had not yet parted.
To mention something negative, the author occasionally asks questions where it is not clear whether this is a point where author himself does not know the answer, or if he leaves the answer as an exercise to reader. Also, from a contemporary perspective, I found the use of the PDP-11 architecture annoying.… (plus d'informations)