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Genre: Education
Date of upload: Jan 4, 2024 ^^
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I just can't feel bad for AT&T here. Their inability to see the value of UNIX cost them dearly. The lucked into the OS and then went and tried to extract massive profits from it. Microsoft realized the market could be huge if only the price were right. AT&T just constantly tried to milk the golden calf lead to all their Anti-Trust issues.
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Fun fact, soon after Linus announced the 1st public Linux kernel, it appeared as a bootable package on mailboxes (amateur servers accessible over the telephone network) here in Germany. Compressed, with about 1MB size it fit on a floppy disk for booting a PC. It contained GNU tools like gcc v1.x and an editor, so that was the start for all the GNU software development that followed. I was there, though not prominently.
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Some viewers, like myself, may have a deep interest in the history of computer/data science but arrived on the scene about a decade too late to serve in the Unix Wars and were really only employed to tend the wounded and clean up the mess. To those people I say: If you've never read The Unix-Hater's Handbook edited by Garfinkel/Weise/Strassman, you owe it to yoursef to rectify this situation as soon as possible. Regardless of one's opinion about the OS itself, the editors who compiled the book, or the denizens of usenet who contrbuted their accounts of many vicious battles, it remains a fascinating and sometimes often hilarious look into the attitudes and thought processes of those who developed and used the multiple flavours of Unix in its heyday (often against their will). Highly recommended reading.
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@ManMountainMetals
4 months ago
I lost 2 cousins in the Unix Wars. Their platoon was overrun on Galgam 5 by the Thrax advance. Grim days.đ˘
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