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The
UNIXHATERS
Handbook

The
UNIX-

HATERS
Handbook
“Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix.
I don’t think that is a coincidence.”

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Edited by Simson Garfinkel,
Daniel Weise, and Steven Strassmann
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Illustrations by John Klossner
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The UNIX-HATERS Handbook
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Copyright  1994 by IDG Books Worldwide.
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ISBN 1-56884-203-1
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Bibliography: Garfinkel, Simson, and Gene Spafford. Practical UNIX Security. O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1991. Jones, D. F. Colossus. Berkeley Medallion Books, 1966. Prentice-Hall, 1989. Liskov, Barbara, et al. CLU reference manual. Springer, 1981. Norman, Donald A. The Design Of Everyday Things. Doubleday, 1990. Stoll, Cliff. The Cuckoo’s Egg. Doubleday, 1989. Tannenbaum, Andy. “Politics of UNIX.” Washington, DC USENIX Conference, 1984. Vinge, Vernor. A Fire Upon the Deep. Tom Doherty Associates, 1992. Zorn, B. The Measured Cost of Conservative Garbage Collection. Technical Report CU-CS-573-92. University of Colorado at Boulder, 1992.

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