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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: history of Unix
Keywords: unix history
Message-ID: <15285@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 21 Feb 91 22:07:53 GMT
References: <1991Feb21.170724.28164@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
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In article <1991Feb21.170724.28164@zip.eecs.umich.edu> bguthy@amazon.eecs.umich.edu (Bala S. Guthy) writes:
>Hello, After I saw the question about "rc" in /etc/rc 
>my intereset in other such trivia has been piqued. Does
>anyone know of a good Unix reference for such questions.
>i.e, is there a book on history of UNIX.

"Life With UNIX" by Don Libes and Sandy Ressler (1989 Prentice-Hall,
ISBN 0-13-536657-7) is probably your best bet.