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> Did I mention it hasn't been updated in a decade? Put your Amiga UNIX machine on the net with no firewall and you may see it rooted faster than a Win98SE box
by Sharlin 9mo ago
> Did I mention it hasn't been updated in a decade? Put your Amiga UNIX machine on the net with no firewall and you may see it rooted faster than a Win98SE box running IE5.
I presume this was written back around 2005 or so, but honestly color me impressed if there has ever been malware targeting Amix in the wild.
Also, ouch :D
> Table 1: Unix standard → Amiga UNIX alternative
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- Keyframe 9mo agoShould've been vim since it originated on Amiga.
- Sharlin 9mo agoHuh, TIL. And that vim’s creator died in 2023, at only 63 :(
- sgt 9mo agoSadly yes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37011324 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37011324
- ThatGuyRaion 9mo agoA lot of good FOSS folks have died too soon. Joerg Schilling (cdrecord's author). He was a quirky, if genuinely talented fella.
- rob74 9mo agoIt did indeed, but the original vim was developed for AmigaOS, not sure if there was an Amiga Unix version available...
- Keyframe 9mo agocorrect
- tyingq 9mo agohttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/522 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/522
- __turbobrew__ 9mo agoless is more