October 2025
Intermediate to advanced
1048 pages
29h 35m
English
The story of this book can trace its origins to 1983. In that year, I was a graduate student in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. The Courant, as it was called, had acquired Sun Microsystems workstations, which were running Berkeley Software Distribution 4.1, an early version of Unix. After I learned the rudiments of Unix, it didn’t take long for me to become a Unix convert.
When I was hired to teach in a full-time position at Hunter College in 1987, I set up a small Unix network with my research computers. I couldn’t imagine working efficiently without a Unix system to help me.
Some time later, ...
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