A good introduction to a new product or concept is vital. This is
particularly true for a versatile software system such as UNIX. UNIX
provides the depth and intelligence to make your computer work hard for
you. It will help you create software and help you use your office
automation equipment to create and edit documents. For your intro-
duction to UNIX, you want a great little book. That is what this work is
meant to be. This book is designed for non-computer specialists,
especially for executives, ad- ministrators and managers who want to
make better use of their software specialists and experts. The way this
Springer edition has come to be published is itself a story. Back about
1980, the founder and president of one of the more successful
microcomputer companies, Mr. Kazue Ishii of CEC, wanted to start
somethig that would be brilliant, sophisticated, innovative, and which
would grow steadily. Out of many proposals, the one he accepted happened
to be mine. The proposal was to build a family of network workstations
for computer-aided design/manufacturing and office automation. UNIX was
to be used as a software generator. But he had a hard time understanding
UNIX, what good it is and how good it is ... Spending a significant
amount of time with a popular computer columnist, Miss Yukari Shirota, I
compiled this book for him. I found this book generally useful for top
executives, managers, planners and office administrators whose
background is outside software engineering. Dr.
