Hello all.
I'm thinking of treating myself to a vintage book on UNIX, and I would like it to cover (among other general vintage UNIX miscellanea) specially SLIP and UUCP technologies.
I've found so far these references:
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"UNIX System Administration Handbook" (Prentice Hall, auth: Evi Nemeth et al.)
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"Essential System Administration" (O'Reilly, auth: Aeleen Frisch)
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From the above, it seems the best candidate would be "UNIX System Administration Handbook, 2nd Ed.", the famous one from 1995 with the red cover (as its TOC covers SLIP and UUCP).
However, I'm wondering what the TOC is and what Unix flavors does the 1st Ed. of that same book cover... Anyone has "UNIX System Administration Handbook, 1st Ed." from 1989 and can shed light on that, please?
Also, I would like to know too what the TOC is and what Unix flavors does the 1st Ed. of O'Reilly's "Essential System Administration" from 1991 cover. Anyone has that oldie at hand?
And lastly, my third question is: does anyone know how good/bad is the SCO UNIX coverage in O'Reilly's "Essential System Administration, 2nd Ed." from 1995?
Long life vintage UNIX!
I'm thinking of treating myself to a vintage book on UNIX, and I would like it to cover (among other general vintage UNIX miscellanea) specially SLIP and UUCP technologies.
I've found so far these references:
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"UNIX System Administration Handbook" (Prentice Hall, auth: Evi Nemeth et al.)
- ed 1: 1989 (¿pro BSD bias?) not available in Amazon.com, but it's in eBay. [Unknown TOC]. ISBN 0-13-933441-6
- ed 2: 1995 (SunOS, Solaris, IRIX, HP-UX, OSF/1, BSDi ) [SLIP+PPP (13 p), UUCP (30 p), USENET+NNTP (16 p)]. ISBN-10: 0131510517
- ed 3: 2001 (RedHat 6.2, FreeBSD 3.2, Solaris 2.7, HP/UX 11) [no slip, no uucp, no usenet]. ISBN-10: 0130206016
- ed 4: 2010 (Ubuntu 9.10, openSUSE 11.2, RedHat EL 5.5, Solaris 11, HP-UX 11i v3, AIX 6.1) ISBN-10: 0131480057. Too new -> disregard.
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"Essential System Administration" (O'Reilly, auth: Aeleen Frisch)
- ed 1: 1991 (which are the unix flavors covered??) not available in Amazon.com, but it's in eBay. [unknown TOC]. ISBN-10: 0937175803
- ed 2: 1995 (SunOS 4.1.4, Solaris 2.4, AIX 4, Digital UNIX 3, SCO UNIX 3, HP-UX 9 & 10, IRIX 6, Linux 1.3) [unknown TOC]. ISBN 10: 1565921275
- ed 3: 2002 (AIX 5.1, FreeBSD 4.6, HP-UX 11, RedHat 7.3, SuSE 8, Solaris 8 and 9, Tru64 5.1) [TOC has no UUCP]. ISBN 10: 0596003439
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From the above, it seems the best candidate would be "UNIX System Administration Handbook, 2nd Ed.", the famous one from 1995 with the red cover (as its TOC covers SLIP and UUCP).
However, I'm wondering what the TOC is and what Unix flavors does the 1st Ed. of that same book cover... Anyone has "UNIX System Administration Handbook, 1st Ed." from 1989 and can shed light on that, please?
Also, I would like to know too what the TOC is and what Unix flavors does the 1st Ed. of O'Reilly's "Essential System Administration" from 1991 cover. Anyone has that oldie at hand?
And lastly, my third question is: does anyone know how good/bad is the SCO UNIX coverage in O'Reilly's "Essential System Administration, 2nd Ed." from 1995?
Long life vintage UNIX!