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Unix is back in vogue.
Unix is a junk OS designed by a committee of PhDs.
Unix in particular is very poor at network printing.
Emacs is a nice operating system, but I prefer UNIX.
Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history.
Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX.
The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected.
I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.
Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy.
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
UNIX is a user-friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more carefully than others.
I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
UNIX always presumes you know what you're doing. You're the human being, after all, and it is a mere operating system.
It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.
To write a kernel without a data structure and have it be as consistent and graceful as UNIX would have been a much, much harder challenge.
What I actually admire in Perl is its ability to provide a very successful abstraction of the horrible mess that is collectively called Unix.
In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.
I came of technical age with UNIX, where I learned with power-greedy pleasure that you could kill a system right out from under yourself with a single command.
If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.
C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new
C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new.
I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.
Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX. The browsers are written in C. The UNIX kernel - that pretty much the entire Internet runs on - is written in C.
The government of India is consistently very advanced. When the world was hesitant on UNIX, we were the first to move in; the RBI said that all banks will implement on UNIX. It worked!
The mass culture of childhood right now is astonishingly technical. Little kids know their Unix path punctuation so they can get around the Web, and they know their HTML and stuff. It's pretty shocking to me.
For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.
Unix has, I think for many years, had a reputation as being difficult to learn and incomplete. Difficult to learn means that the set of shared conventions, and things that are assumed about the way it works, and the basic mechanisms, are just different from what they are in other systems.
