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Subject: [Discuss] The Register: Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner
From: dcrookston at gmail.com (Daniel C.)
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:15:52 -0700
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That's interesting, but it's mostly just an extremely long winded
recounting of where different versions of Unix came from. It ends on a note
about graphics systems, but doesn't really get into them.

Which corner exactly have we coded ourselves into?

On Sat, Feb 17, 2024, 8:20 AM Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com> wrote:

> As an old Unix programmer, I found this pretty interesting. I learned C
> from the original K&R back in 1980.
>
> https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/16/what_is_unix/
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