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minus-squareI Cast Fist@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up36arrow-down1·1 year ago80s programmers hated Unix, btw. Look up Unix Haters Handbook, it’s a free and funny read
minus-squarellii@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up12·edit-21 year ago Unix Haters Handbook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook Didn’t knew this. It has 360 pages, wow! EDIT: The Macintosh on which I type this has 64MB: Unix was not designed for the Mac. What kind of challenge is there when you have that much RAM? hehe
minus-squaredejected_warp_core@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoThey also hated their local sysadmin. BOFH still holds up in a few key ways.
minus-squarePrime_Minister_Keyes@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoThanks. I didn’t know there was a real band called “The Pipi Pickers” and I might have lived on happily without that knowledge.
minus-squareI Cast Fist@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoI prefer the MIT link, it’s faster 😁 https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf
minus-squarelagoon8622@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoGood thing GNU’s not Unix
minus-squareexu@feditown.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down3·1 year agoUnix does so many stupid things and we’re still stuck with some of them. Especially the terminal section still applies today.
80s programmers hated Unix, btw. Look up Unix Haters Handbook, it’s a free and funny read
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook
Didn’t knew this. It has 360 pages, wow!
EDIT:
hehe
They also hated their local sysadmin. BOFH still holds up in a few key ways.
Thanks. I didn’t know there was a real band called “The Pipi Pickers” and I might have lived on happily without that knowledge.
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I prefer the MIT link, it’s faster 😁
https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf
Good thing GNU’s not Unix
Unix does so many stupid things and we’re still stuck with some of them. Especially the terminal section still applies today.