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

[Lynn Bradshaw via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Regardless of what anyone thinks of Richard Stallman today (and my
stance is that he definitely needs to change certain things about
himself but there needs to be due process if any of the most serious
allegations against him have weight), I really have my hats off to the
GNU project. A lot of the reputation of Unix as having a garbage user
experience seems to be from things like expecting every line of
characters to have 79 or maybe 80 characters besides '\0' and the
ensuing chaos when such an assumption was inevitably violated. All
from big commercial companies. Then the FSF showed up and not merely
undid all those mistakes but added more features and released it "free
as in freedom" and typically even "free as in free beer".

On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 4:14 PM JP Vossen via plug
<plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
>
> 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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