Ah, I want one too. ;D
The Unix Magic Poster
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#72This is phenomenal. All the eggs I could find are: the spool, pipe, cat, thread (on the far left), shell, boot and fork. Are there any others, not including the characters on the cape and the words on the bags/jars?
- The wizard hat says "su," naturally - The "shell process" (visual pun! I love it) is "outputting to null" - The hat ribbon has the initials "dmr," "kt," and "bwk" - presumably Dennis M. Ritchie, Ken Thompson, and Brian W. Kernighan Any others?
Also notice the output faucet is shaped like a cat, as in "cat to null"
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#73If Gary is still around and wants to sell official prints I (and I’m sure many others) would buy one! Edit: looks like Unitech Software actually holds the copyright
> Unitech Software actually holds the copyright
Does Unitech still exist?
Sometimes the original artist retains rights as well.
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#74Wow !!! this is so cool !!! will probably have this printed as a poster and put it on my wall.
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#75This is phenomenal. All the eggs I could find are: the spool, pipe, cat, thread (on the far left), shell, boot and fork. Are there any others, not including the characters on the cape and the words on the bags/jars?
- the reaper in the background may represent the duty of PID 1, which must reap dead processes. He stands between the workshop (user space?) and the rest of the kingdom & streams (kernel space?)
- The strand from his hat appears to have initials on it: DMR (Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie), KT (Ken Thompson), BWK (Brian Wilson Kernighan)
- SCM branches appear to rise from the ting
- B has a "chip" in it
- The "diff" vessel seems to have a special purpose -- not sure if that's intentional.
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#76Things I can identify in the poster: - A wizard (which is a reference to a highly knowledgeable UNIX expert) - the cauldron the wizard is using is in the shape of a seashell, and there are shells on the wizard's hat (on UNIX the shell is a textual interface between the user and the operating system) - the wizard's hat has the word "su" on it ("su" is the "superuser" command used to "become" a "superuser", ie. the mos…
boot -s was boot in single user mode, and boots -s is just a boot.
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#77This is epic. I just ordered a 20x30 print from Costco for $15. Hopefully they will print it.
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#78If you want the poster and are in Germany, hit me up, I’ll print it for cost of ink on good 8 colors printer and hahnemühle paper.
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#79I expected this to be about actual Unix Magic numbers, which are how UNIX/Linux/BSD/etc. determines file types. [0]
Unix Magic was only one out of three posters in a set. Unix Feuds. Unix Views. Unix Magic. You can see them all on an image search. [1]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)
[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22unix+views%22+or+%22unix+feuds%22+OR+%22unix+magic%22+posterRe: The Unix Magic Poster
#80A few tenuous ones it seems not mentioned yet. The title "UNIX MAGIC" is arguably on a banner(1). The wall(1) visible through the window. (On NetBSD there was also a window(1) utility.) The peak visible through the window in the distance could be mount(1) ________. And of course, there is a man(1) visible through the window. The prominent display of the wizard's fingers, as in finger(1), in the foreground is probably…
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