Can anyone recommend some good computer books?

[Yes]

Not a learning computers book, I mean like a history book kind of. Something that'll explain the beginnings of UNIX or something. Has anyone read a good book like that?

Thanks!

[Jimleko211]

http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/

Great book on the Free Software movement, and the hacker culture.

[clonne4crw]

Just for Fun, by Linus Torvalds and David Diamond.
http://books.google.com/books?id=6zSWd8Ou8BAC&dq=linus+torvalds+just+for+fun&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=ClR8Sp7MFJSsMbr85dkC&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#v=onepage&q=&f=false

[cmay]

you could maybe use some of his writings for something http://catb.org/esr/

my own books are just old unix hand books and i find the information other than learning to use unix on the net. wikipedia is a good place to snoop for articles.

[cmay]

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bibliography-history.html
some more suggestions. from the BSD handbook. there is also a site called the unix heritage where old unix history and sources are found. search dennis m ritchie to find his home page as he links to a lot of unix material-.

[gnomeuser]

the UNIX Haters Handbook (http://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf)

[RiceMonster]

the UNIX Haters Handbook (http://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf)

+1

I found that a fun read.