[Discuss] The Register: Forgetting the history of Unix is coding us into a corner

Ben Carr bencarr at gmail.com
Tue Feb 20 11:35:02 EST 2024


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/
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