40 years of Unix

BBC UK ^ | 20 August 2009 | Mark Ward

[ShadowAce]

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Linux == UNIX

[bmwcyle]

Be ye ever so humble, there is no place like 127.0.0.1.

[PreciousLiberty]

“Linux == UNIX”

MacOS X ~= BSD ~= Unix

Windows is the only OS in widespread use that isn’t Unix-based.

[Moltke]

127.0.0.1 sweet 127.0.0.1!

[massgopguy]

There’s a Dilbert cartoon with him meeting a Unix programmer. “The beard, the suspenders. I my God you’re a Unix programmer!”
“Here’s a quarter kid. Go buy a real computer.”

[cbkaty]

Took my first Intro to UNIX course at Bell Labs School in the Denver area in 1979. Line editor on Model 43 Teleprinters was all we had.....no VI no CRTs.....

[Verbosus]

UNIX and I first met in 1978, and have been friends ever
since.

[cbkaty]

There were a couple of advanced UNIX programmers at Basking Ridge that we called ZZ Top....

[y6162]

I have been a UNIX admin for 20 years. Knowing UNIX inside and out has allowed be to refine my laziness to an art form.

Oh and UNIX has made me a people person. =)

[Dahoser]

For you. And any of you vi lovers out there. (Ain't me. I hate that editor and it hates me. But I do enjoy mispronouncing it to see who the real Unix lovers are. The ones with Old Faithful level steam coming out of their ears when I do that are the true Unix geeks.)

[ShadowAce]

Linux == UNIX

Not really. Linux is a UNIX-like POSIX-compliant platform. It's the POSIX compiance that make many people confuse it with Unix.

It is getting closer every year to Unix, though.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

It's a lot closer than MS-DOS.

;-)

[ShadowAce]

Thank heaven for that!!

:)

[loungitude]

[y6162]

“For you. And any of you vi lovers out there. (Ain’t me. I hate that editor and it hates me.”

:g;ObamaCare;s;;Death Panel;g

[Verbosus]

Quote:
“Took my first Intro to UNIX course at Bell Labs School in the Denver area in 1979...”

I may know you.

[battlecry]

Multics failed???

[cbkaty]

I may know you.

I worked at SWBT for 31 years. I spent about 3 of those years in UNIX schools..... One of my managers attented with me....we were both humorously accused of getting our UNIX PHDs on company time....