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    And the coments at the page linked to in the question also has a link to the IMDb page... Commented May 13, 2019 at 13:57
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    @Neil yes, albeit in name only. Commented May 14, 2019 at 7:15
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    Others have noted that the green book is difficult to identify, unlike the others. Freeze-frame leads me to believe that this is because in the movie it is a samizdat comb-bound copy of a book that probably does not actually have a green cover in its publisher's binding. My first guess is Kernighan and Pike's The Unix Programming Environment. It appears to have retained the "The" in a different typeface in the title, as the original has. And the second word of the title appears to be "UNIX". Commented May 14, 2019 at 12:48
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    @NeilMeyer Yes! Peter Norton was the guy discovered DOS/Windows was not erasing files, just marking the first caracter name with a ? in the FAT. He created the UNDELETE command and get famous (if you can believe it you can be glad today you got a trash bin icon on your desktop). He started to write books and founded a company to sell Peter Norton utilitaries like the "Disk Doctor" and one of the first anti-virus Commented May 14, 2019 at 13:14
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    @jean minor nitpick: NAV came after the Symantec acquisition, probably from Symantec rather than Norton, and Peter Norton wasn’t involved (AFAIK). Commented May 14, 2019 at 13:25