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I highly recommend this book. It's easily accessible, fun to watch the story spin out, and recalls the magic of early UNIX and dial-up internet. Cliff Stoll is
by frereubu 8y ago
I highly recommend this book. It's easily accessible, fun to watch the story spin out, and recalls the magic of early UNIX and dial-up internet. Cliff Stoll is quite a character - check out his TED talk to see what I mean.
- jhbadger 8y ago"Early UNIX". Ouch. The events of the book took place in 1986, at which time UNIX was more or less like what we use today. Except for the absence of modern scripting languages, a modern user could use UNIX from 1986 with very little problem. I tend to think of "early UNIX" as things like V6 UNIX from the 1970s, but to be fair to you, much more time has passed from 1986 to now than did from the dawn of UNIX to 1986.
- frereubu 8y agoFair point - as you say I was thinking more of the relative lengths of time before and after the events in the book happened (at least in my limited knowledge), but your interpretation of "early" is probably the one that most people would go with first.