JP Vossen via plug on 29 Jan 2022 13:14:05 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] Funny publicly available Unix humor text remembered recently


On 1/25/22 18:14, Lynn Bradshaw via plug wrote:
Maybe copyright hasn't quite expired but one of the editors posted it
on his MIT page so I assume it's not just piracy:

https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf

"The Unix-Hater's Handbook" is one of those works where it shows
you're a real connoisseur of Unix operating systems if you read it and
still find it funny despite being a comedy roast of the software you
use (or used years ago). It also shows how much we should be grateful
for efforts like the GNU project and the Linux and various BSD kernels
that made using these things much less of an abject nightmare.

On a somewhat related note, editor Simson Garfinkel co-wrote "The
Computer Book: From the Abacus to Artificial Intelligence, 250
Milestones in the History of Computer Science", which is kind of a
nice coffee table sort of book:

https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Book-Artificial-Intelligence-Milestones-ebook/dp/B07C2NQSPV

This reminds me of:

* https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo
    * Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today
    * Unix History Repository
    * The goal of this project is to create a git repository representing the Unix source code history, starting from the 1970s and ending in the modern time. To fulfill this goal the project brings data from early snapshots, repositories, and primary research. The project aims to put in the repository as much metadata as possible, allowing the automated analysis of Unix history.

* https://www.levenez.com/unix/ This is a simplified diagram of unix history.
* http://www.levenez.com/unix/unix.pdf
* http://www.levenez.com/unix/unix_a4.pdf
* http://www.levenez.com/unix/unix_letter.pdf

Also:
* https://www.levenez.com/lang/
    * Computer Languages History
* https://www.levenez.com/windows/
    * Windows History

Others:
* http://www.unix.org/what_is_unix/history_timeline.html
* http://www.unix.org/what_is_unix/flavors_of_unix.html
* http://www.computerhope.com/history/unix.htm
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Unix_history-simple.png
* http://www.unix-diagram.org/diagram/unix_diagram.png (5MB .png)

Later,
JP
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