Posted on 02/27/2019 3:25:59 AM PST by ShadowAce
Oh brother.
BTW: Unix was developed at Bell Labs in New Jersey.
Sorry.
And I just did it again in another post. smh
What a nice display of grace! I'm going to hit the shower, head into the office and carry that example with me today. :-)
Thanks for the additional info.
AT&T and Berkley Computer Science Dept were early UNIX collaborators.
The earliest distributions of Unix from Bell Labs in the 1970s included the source code to the operating system, allowing researchers at universities to modify and extend Unix. The operating system arrived at Berkeley in 1974, at the request of computer science professor Bob Fabry who had been on the program committee for the Symposium on Operating Systems Principles where Unix was first presented.
How do these Linux threads relate to a free republic?
Did reddit kick you off there?
Correct. Brian Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie and Ken Thompson were the principle designers.
AT&T, because of its monopoly in the communications industry, was forbidden by the Governments antitrust legislation from competing in the computer industry to this day and even after the break up of AT&T.
Virtually every major innovative advancement in computers science was developed on Unix platforms at the Palo Alto Research Center, AT&T Bell Labs, University of California Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the National Security Agency.
UNIX was becoming the defacto Operating System Standard in industry and government throughout the 80’s. The variations in the kernel of the Operating system and differences in the set of commands and their command line arguments however was causing problems with application portability, so the Federal Government mandated the POSIX ( portable operating system ) Application Programmers Interface (API) standard.
All work on Graphical User Interface design at Universities across the country was essential put on hold until all UNIX systems became compliant with the POSIX standard for the Military which had gone into Unix big time.
Graphical User Interfaces existed on UNIX platforms long before Apple and Windows sold them to the public. In fact Apple’s interface was inspired by a field trip by Steve Jobs and the Woz to PARC. (Apples major contribution was the clipping algorithm for efficient GUI interface refreshing ) I was working on a MIT X11 windowing based system several years before they appeared on the first Macintosh’s and MS Windows Version 1 systems.
In the mean time, Microsoft and Apple continued with its one size fits all GUI design and wrote a piece of crap POSIX library that someone in .gov must have been paid off with stock options to certify as POSIX compliant.
The government, because of costs and a standardized set of Office software that people had become use too while UNIX was screwing with the .gov mandated POSIX standard ended up handing Microsoft control of the Desk top market. UNIX has been relegated to the back-end server market as a result.
Until Microsoft’s development tools caught up with UNIX, most MS software was developed on UNIX workstations! Microsoft’s development platform was also split into a set of API interfaces for internal development by Microsoft developers only and another set for sale to non-microsoft developers. ( Proven in court ).
The non-Microsoft developer API’s were by design buggy which gave Microsoft a monopoly on developing products that caused fewer Blue Screens of Death.
For years I could write a simple Perl Script that sent a malformed UDP broadcast packet across the Local Network and Blue Screened every Microsoft product in the Office.
I spent 33 years in the IT industry and can proudly say I never had Windows Platform on my desk for anything other than mandate MS-word documents and to test the portability of stuff I worked on.
In the same way that every other special interest group (SIG) relates. Do you complain about the music threads? The humor threads? The food threads?
To answer a little better--Linux is open source. It givves the user (us) the ability to run our computers as we see fit--not as a giant corporation thinks we should. It enables our freedom, not restricts it.
It provides complete transparency into the tools we use to communicate with each other, and doesn't try to hide any means of spying or control within the computers we all use.
It gives us some insight into the platform that FreeRepublic is based on, so we can try (if we are interested) to see how complicated John's job is at maintaining and running this site.
It allows people of similar interests to gather together to discuss a mutually interesting topic, which (last time I checked) was pretty much the basis for Free Speech.
Usally people have self control. I guess you don’t. You never have actually. NO one gives a care about Apple.
Of course, Windows admin'ing isn't boring either, but IMO, not as much fun. :-)
Amen
( Pardon me if my comment belongs in the Religion thread ) (LOL)
The only thing my company-mandated windows desktop does on my desk is run my Linux VM.
“the basis for Free Speech. “
So you disagree with Jim Robinson about banning liberal trolls from FR because that would violate their free speech? Good to know.
I started on AT&T UNIX 3 in the Late 70’s and early 80’s.
Did my graduate work on UCB Berkeley systems on VAX 11/780’s and on AT&T 3b220’s because they gave them to us.
My machine was one of the first 100 on the ARPANET ( todays internet ).
We worked on and BETA tested the first versions of Domain Name Services (DNS) to replace hand editing the hosts file from Unix-to-Unix Copy Protocol (UUCP) based mail updates for new hosts in the hosts file.
I’ve been retired for 4 years now.
It's actually pretty easy.
The WiFi where I am would never support a bot.
Yep these machines are the beast. smile.
You need not strain your brain with Linux now. My first install was in 1994, UMSDOS version of Slackware on a DOS machine. All set up in command line, but smooth as silk and fast as a flushing quail. It was super stable.
Now Linux will run on about anything. Old slow machines work well if you pick a light distribution. They are simply fun and you don’t need to understand what is under the hood. And it is easier to install (normally) than a Windows install. It is not encumbered by all the legal nonsense.
Try it, you might actually like it. smile.
Really, it is no longer just a coder’s tool.
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