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The evolution of Unix architecture in two diagrams

• B1FF_PSUVM 9y ago
  Mentioning just "two diagrams", instead of pounding the point more abundantly, reminded me of the just-right factor highlighted by a saying I saw quoted elsewhere: “A martini is like women’s breasts. One is not enough, and three is too many.”
• unexistance 9y ago
  one of his software seems interesting, outwit[0]. Windows data manipulation via command line to be used with UnxUtils[1] p/s: Yes I know there's PowerShell / WMIC [0] https://www.spinellis.gr/sw/outwit/ https://www.spinellis.gr/sw/outwit/ [1] http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
• kccqzy 9y ago
  Nice work! But I can't help but notice that in the first diagram, the author misspelled "link" as "1ink".
  • test1235 9y ago
    That's a weird mistake - it can't be autocorrect or a keyboard typo. The only time I'd expect to see an error like that is during OCR scanning.
    • SolarNet 9y ago
      The author stated they did ocr for the first diagram.
• appleflaxen 9y ago
  This is a really cool way to visualize a code repository! I wonder what it would look like for a more distantly-related type of Unix (like ubuntu, redhat, or arch, for example)
  • setrofim_ 9y ago
    Well, there'd be a massive box for systemd in userspace, udev, dbus...