How Unix made it to the top
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How Unix made it to the top
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Re: How Unix made it to the top
#2I expected this to be about how Unix became so popular (_top_ of popularity charts), not to the top (_CEO_).
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#3I expected this to be about how Unix became so popular (_top_ of popularity charts), not to the top (_CEO_).
Well that was the intended wordplay.
Although it is a shame that for end users Unix is still nowhere near the top of any popularity metric.
Re: How Unix made it to the top
#4I expected this to be about how Unix became so popular (_top_ of popularity charts), not to the top (_CEO_).
Well that was the intended wordplay. Although it is a shame that for end users Unix is still nowhere near the top of any popularity metric.
Unix kernel is hugely popular: think of the millions of Android devices.
Unix userland, not so much, outside the software engineering community.
Re: How Unix made it to the top
#5I expected this to be about how Unix became so popular (_top_ of popularity charts), not to the top (_CEO_).
Well that was the intended wordplay. Although it is a shame that for end users Unix is still nowhere near the top of any popularity metric.
Unix or Linux? Unix is kinda dead by all metrics.
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#8I learned TeX back in 1984 because I wanted a word processor which would put footnotes at the bottom of the page.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
ya no one uses mac or BSD
Indeed, noone uses BSD. Is mac considered as a Unix? I think it'd be considered as its own thing by now.
Yes, macOS is (or OS X has) been considered a Unix:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1489/is-mac-os-x-un...