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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