The Unix Haters' Handbook

[Alexander Schreiber]

On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:23:51PM -0700, John Floren wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
> > > >   Chapter 1---not so much any more.  This was a time (94) when the ANSI-C
> >  > > standard had only been out a few years so there was still quite a bit of K&R
> >  > > C floating around.  This was also a time when there were still plenty of
> >  > > Unix versions floating around, instead of the what?  Five we have left now?
> >  > > (Linux, Open|Free|NetBSD, Solaris).
> >  >
> >  > HP-UX and AIX are still alive and kicking, so commercial UNIX isn't
> >  > dead, it just smells funny.
> >
> >  I giggled very loudly when I read this. Well put.
> >
> 
> A take on Rob Pike's "Not only is Unix dead, it's starting to smell really bad"?
> 

Not intentionally ;-)

But in that case, Rob is wrong, Unix as a OS family is very much alive.

To cite someone else:

If UNIX is dead, the necromancer who is animating the corpse is doing a
damn fine job.        -- Par Leijonhufvud (parlei at algonet.se) in a.s.r.

;-)

Regards,
      Alex.
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