Seriously. It's effectively deep voodoo; to talk about it properly you kind of need to know a fair bit about things evolved in the 70s-80s. In some ways the be

Seriously. It's effectively deep voodoo; to talk about it properly you kind of need to know a fair bit about things evolved in the 70s-80s. In some ways the best part of the Unix Hater's Guide is that it chronicles a lot of the history of those early systems that still live on in the guts of our computers.