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I 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.
The best software is the software users don't even realize is there, because it just works.
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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.
> It didn't seem like a very good idea for us to be keeping records from
> the inner sanctum of the corporation on a computer where most everybody
> had super-user privileges. A call to the PR guy convinced him of the
> wisdom of keeping such things on their own premises. And so the CEO's
> office bought a Unix system.
I 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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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.
*BSD, MacOS X, iOS are UNIX'es, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system) .
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Unix kernel is hugely popular: think of the millions of Android devices. Unix userland, not so much, outside the software engineering community.
I don't like this argument, because Android is not developed openly and the kernel itself is a fork which lags behind the mainstream Linux development until Google implements the changes, which users see when they throw away their phone because Samsung/HTC/Xiaomi/Ulefone/Whatever doesn't want to update the phone or Verizon/ATT/Telenor/T-Mobile, etc., doesn't want to push the update because they branded the phone so t…
Android apps can be run on GNU/Linux without emulation when required libraries and daemons are available (on compatible architecture, of course).
I learned TeX back in 1984 because I wanted a word processor which would put footnotes at the bottom of the page.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> It didn't seem like a very good idea for us to be keeping records from > the inner sanctum of the corporation on a computer where most everybody > had super-user privileges. A call to the PR guy convinced him of the > wisdom of keeping such things on their own premises. And so the CEO's > office bought a Unix system. ... and this is exactly how it works today with SaaS subscriptions, except root-privileged people d…
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Unix kernel is hugely popular: think of the millions of Android devices. Unix userland, not so much, outside the software engineering community.
Don't iPhones and iPads also have a UNIX kernel?
Apple MacOS X is based on FreeBSD code (and lot of other code), and it certified as UNIX compatible, so MacOS X can be named as UNIX. iOS is based on MacOS X, so iOS is UNIX too.