The Unix Haters' Handbook

Alexander Schreiber als at thangorodrim.de
Sun Apr 6 16:45:26 CDT 2008


On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 03:43:57AM +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 06/04/2008, 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).
> >
> >
> > ... AIX, HP/UX, ...
> 
> ... Mac OS X...
> 
> Now /officially/ Unix & I believe has sold more individual system
> licenses than any other Unix ever, possibly now than all other Unixes
> ever put together... Certainly in the tens of millions... So, y'know,
> /quite/ significant... :¬)

But from what I've seen, it twisted the definition of UNIX even worse
that AIX did.

Regards,
       Alex.
-- 
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 looks like work."                                      -- Thomas A. Edison


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