The Unix Magic Poster

Post by sprior » Tue, May 04, 2021, 2:07 AM UTC

neilv wrote: post #25

sprior wrote: post #12

I have a copy of that poster in good condition as well as at least one related one (Unix wars), but am too lazy to dig it out so I'll go from memory. There are tees in the pipes and I think the trap and valve was significant. I think the bucket is catching a (memory) leak. Is the guy outside using a reaper? That's not just a spool, but a /usr/spool. There was some talk that the castle represented a domain. And of cou…

This Unix Wars one? https://ia601002.us.archive.org/3/items/Mt_Xinu_Mach_386_920... http://catb.org/jargon/html/D/Death-Star.html

Post by zwilliamson » Tue, May 04, 2021, 2:43 AM UTC

IncRnd wrote: post #79

I 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+poster

Post by cyberge99 » Tue, May 04, 2021, 5:08 AM UTC

asyncanup wrote: post #33

ryan-duve wrote: post #2

This 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?

Books on the bookshelf (top-right) are: - daemons - whoami - traps - curses - pwd - inbox bags hanging underneath them: - spawn - nroff - dates - root a log against the fireplace wall which says "login", with potion-like bottles saying "uucp" and the biggest bottle of potion is named "C" (of course), while an old broken bottle lies on the ground called "B" (of course) Symbols on the wizard's clothes are all unix symb…

Post by edelhans » Tue, May 04, 2021, 6:57 AM UTC

spython wrote: post #78

If 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.

Post by kreetx » Tue, May 04, 2021, 7:23 AM UTC

carbonguy wrote: post #13

ryan-duve wrote: post #2

This 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?