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What is UNIX, Anyway?
Lieutenant writes "Technology professionals have loosely used the term "UNIX" since the first person had to explain the difference between the Berkeley and AT&T flavors, so it's not surprising to find as many UNIX standards as there are versions of the operating system. Peter Seebach wades through the wellspring of UNIX standards and sorts them out for you, concluding that the rumors of the death of UNIX are (as usual) greatly exaggerated."
i don't take any reports of UNIX's death as fact without a Netcraft confirmation.
"There were only two things to come out of Berkeley in the 60's, LSD and Unix. I doubt that is a coincidence."
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
"The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from." -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum, author of Minix.
This post expresses my opinion, not that of my employer. And yes, IAAL.
They'll probably try to stop you from using it by applying the Patriot Act. I think in section 3.14.a.2.2.b it says that a terrorist is someone who uses standards documentation without renewing their license.
(It's actually a giant space clam that wants you to give all your money to L Ron Hubbard)
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Indeed, the story of UNIX today is depicted in this documentary.
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
Unix is not GNU.
That command is only valid for System V type variants.
It's true I tell you, feller at work's next door neighbour read it in the paper.
Ah. I see you've been forced to use AIX as well!
// well, actually not so much the systems themselves, but the assinine UNIX mentality of "harder is better" and "more documentation eliminates the need for good design.", which set back Computer Science departments and academia 15 years behind industry.
/// fortunately, one of the unintended side-effects of Linux is that the mentality, at least amongst Linux users, is slowly, ever so slowly, fading away.
/// you say that Linux programmers are going away from //. They are, they're just not doing the documentation. ;-)
Hmm.. yes, in
Agrajag: "Oh no, not again!"
You've never read a Sendmail.cf file, have you?
E pluribus unum
To be fair, he did say "drug induced". Sendmail.cf (Heck, M4 in its entirity) clearly is not drug induced. It is a many tentacled being which slithered forth from the darkest nether regions of hell to lay waste to the minds of humanity. On a good day.