Around 2000 or so, I used to work in tech support for a software company who had like 5000 Windows-based customers and 5 running Solaris. My boss chose me to learn Solaris when the previous “expert” left. I bought this book and started hacking. Good times!
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Is this just my copy? The cover was put on backwards, so all the text is upside down…
Edit: Pics or it didn’t happen. Edit-2: Formatting.
In polish we have an idiom for rare books that directly translates to ‘white crow’. Incidentally French say ‘merle blanc’ - ‘white blackbird’. French influenced polish a lot during late modernity. Anyway where was I.
Ah, yeah likely not very rare, they must have messed a whole print run and decided to sell it off anyway, maybe at a discount, since it’s not a limited hardback illuminated Shakespeare’s works in 5 tomes.
Then again… Weirder things have collection value.
White housefly in Portuguese.
My friend put this one together a while ago.
screams in horror
The camel book was on perl. It had no hope of being taken seriously
Perl itself or the O’Reilly book?
Just kidding, I know you meant Perl.
Drop table animals, is clearly the best one.
Share your O’Reilly tomes here.
I had a couple of paperbacks back in the day, but they are still lying around where I used to live. The only book that I would still read now is about the Linux kernel, but it’s not O’Reilly and it’s about a deprecated kernel anyway XD
Nice! I picked up a good classic myself at a thrift store a couple months ago.
I like one of the first lines in the first chapter: “The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.”
Oh yeah. I remember that book from college. Only like 100 pages or so, right?
About 260 if you don’t count the function reference at the back. There sure wasn’t much to it back then. Compared to the monster that is C++. I can maybe see why Linus doesn’t like it and prefers C. There’s a hundred different ways to do one thing, and it could get out of hand, and there’s a lot of complex stuff in the libraries that you’re dependent on. For low-level programming it’s basically like “trust me, bro”.
It’s great for me though that can’t program worth a shit and have all the algorithms ready to go.
I have that one on my shelf right now. Mine’s the k&r version.
In high school I had Sun sparc 5 And then an ultra 60, Solaris was a pretty sweet OS back in the day
How did you get a Sun Sparc 5 and Ultra 60 as a high school student? You were able to get them used from a college that had recently upgraded or something?
In the late 90s they were a couple hundred bucks on eBay. Passed their usefulness as workstations. I still have the ultra 60 but couldn’t find a scsi three hard drive to replace the original when it died
Hmm, if you could find a SCSI3->2 adapter, and then a SCSI->CompactFlash drive, you might be able to cobble a working solution together?
I think you need a blue SCSI.
Solaris? The OS that shipped with nothing installed, not even a compiler? Yeah, it was like, so great.
Solaris is actually kinda cool now. It was based on a great OS and actually has been improved since.
We can’t do much about who owns it, but I’m glad to see someone’s looking after it – unlike when IBM found the loophole and reverted AT&T Unix ownership back to novell to just rot. Good job.
Macromedia flash… Damn that takes me back.
That went to shit as soon as Adobe took over.
I didn’t like that the iPhone never supported it, but in hindsight they did us all a fucking favour.
This book goes really well with OP’s - The Unix Hater’s Handbook
Oh wow.
ugh.pdf
360 pages
Chapter 1: Things are going to get worse before they get worse:)
His face tells it all
Yeah, is there a reason that this looks like me?
Oh I remember this one, nice find.
Solaris brings back memories lol. Haven’t touched one of those in decades!
Cool. I noticed I have seen the author’s name in TUHS mailing list. He’s still posting there sometimes.
He wrote a bunch of these books, they’re still quite useful for foundational and historical knowledge on the subjects.
Another book on the history of unix is UNIX: A History and a Memoir from Kernighan. It was a joy to read.
Adding it to my reading list, thanks!
Here is one of my collection of O’Reilly books. Not actually mine, but my father’s. It’s published in 1995 by a Japanese publisher.
Supah kool!
First edition? Possibly valuable to nerds.
No. It’s the fifth version. The first one was published in 1992, three years before this
Damn, I used to have that…
