The Unix Haters' Handbook
Cameron Kaiser
spectre at floodgap.com
Sun Apr 6 19:50:23 CDT 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).
>
> 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.
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