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I remember borrowing this from a friend a couple of years after that Finnish chap created a *nix that I could run on my lowly 386 machine. If you are a unix lo
by dcminter 3y ago
I remember borrowing this from a friend a couple of years after that Finnish chap created a *nix that I could run on my lowly 386 machine.
If you are a unix lover (as I am), then it's worth it at the very least for the anti-foreword by Dennis Ritchie.
- bee_rider 3y agoRitchie tip-toed right up to the line between staying tongue-in-cheek and ripping them to shreds. It was quite impressive IMO.
- kagevf 3y agoFelt like the hate was mutual.
- DonHopkins 3y agoFrom: npg@East (Neil Groundwater - Sun Consulting) Date: Wed, Jun 27, 1990 Subject: Humor from Dennis Ritchie (at USENIX) (Actually Dennis's latter remark was attributed by him to Rob Pike) from Unix Today 6/25 page 5. "..., Richie reminded the audience that Steve Jobs stood at the same podium a few years back and announced that X was brain-dead and would soon die. "He was half-right," Ritchie said. "Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks." http://www.anvari.org/fortune/Miscellaneous_Collections/133229_in-his-90-usenix-presentation-dennis-ritchie-reminded-the-audience-that-steve-jobs-stood-at-the-same-podium-a-few-years-back-and-announced-that-x-windows-was-brain-dead-and-would-soon-die.html http://www.anvari.org/fortune/Miscellaneous_Collections/1332...
- jakobson14 3y agoThere's an odd dig at the FSF in there that I wish had more context. What must have it been like to watch GNU clone unix, having worked on it?