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[Discuss] The Register: Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner
- Subject: [Discuss] The Register: Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner
- From: bencarr at gmail.com (Ben Carr)
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 11:35:02 -0500
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It was very long winded, and was a mediocre look at the history. They seem to want to say we are abandoning everything is a file, without a single mention of Plan9. I had high hopes for the article but was very disappointed. :wq -Ben On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 10:19?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/ > > -- > Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com> > Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at lists.blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- [image: photo] *Benjamin Carr, Ph.D.* Senior HPC Engineer and Research Scientist 607.227.5340 | bencarr at gmail.com <http://github.com/benjaminhccarr> <http://us.linkedin.com/in/bencarr> <http://twitter.com/benjaminhccarr>
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