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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Lions Book</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="lion-food.html" title="lion food"/><link rel="next" href="LISP.html" title="LISP"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Lions Book</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lion-food.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="LISP.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Lions-Book"/><dt xmlns="" id="Lions-Book"><b>Lions Book</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> <i class="citetitle">Source Code and Commentary on Unix level 6</i>,
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by John Lions. The two parts of this book contained (1) the entire source
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listing of the Unix Version 6 kernel, and (2) a commentary on the source
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discussing the algorithms. These were circulated internally at the
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University of New South Wales beginning 1976--77, and were, for years
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after, the <span class="emphasis"><em>only</em></span> detailed kernel documentation
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available to anyone outside Bell Labs. Because Western Electric wished to
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maintain trade secret status on the kernel, the Lions Book was only
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supposed to be distributed to affiliates of source licensees. In spite of
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this, it soon spread by <a href="../S/samizdat.html"><i class="glossterm">samizdat</i></a> to a good many of
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the early Unix hackers.</p><p>[1996 update: The Lions book lives again! It was put back in print as
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ISBN 1-57398-013-7 from Peer-To-Peer Communications, with forewords by
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Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson. In a neat bit of reflexivity, the page
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before the contents quotes this entry.]</p><p>[1998 update: John Lions's death was an occasion of general mourning
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in the hacker community.]</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lion-food.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="LISP.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">lion food<6F></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>LISP</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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