The Unix Haters' Handbook

Cameron Kaiser spectre at floodgap.com
Sat Apr 5 18:42:11 CST 2008


>   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).  

... AIX, HP/UX, ...

And, of course then there's the argument over whether OS X counts too. So
I think there's still a fair amount of heterogeneity even now.

>   Chapter 8---who uses csh anymore?

*raises hand*

Well, tcsh really.

>   Chapter 14---I don't know anyone using NFS anymore (I think the last time
> I saw NFS in a commercial setting was the late 90s, and even at home, I
> don't use NFS all that much).

I use it mostly for diskless systems, but even in that application I don't
use it much.

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