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.
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.
Share your O’Reilly tomes here.
Macromedia flash… Damn that takes me back.
I had a copy of that book to, also bought it circa year 2000.
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
Oh I remember this one, nice find.
I have/had a bunch of these books. Some got lost but I have the electronic versions of them.
This is one other book I fondly remember. UNIX For Application Developers. From 1991 I think. I vaguely remember a statement in the intro along the lines of Windows being user friendly but UNiX being expert friendly. :-)
Couldn’t find a better image.
That’s pretty cool that the company chose to support those 5 customers instead of just telling them to get windows or get bent.
His face tells it all
Yeah, is there a reason that this looks like me?
Damn, I used to have that…
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!
I’m in this one:
Those dead, cold eyes…
