This is amazing. Does anyone know how to get a physical copy?
The Internet Archive offers a 32Mb PNG file. Download that one and take it to your local print shop. https://archive.org/details/unix-magic-poster-gary-overcare-...
Good idea, thanks!
Annotated Unix Magic Poster
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#23The #38 is controversial as noted. To me it represents the branching of Unix flavors, mostly derived from the AT&T and BSD versions (represented by the glasses.)
Interesting. When I look at this I see printed circuitry like you would find on a PCB. In which case it could represent the electrons flowing downwards into the processor which powers the shell. And the power source might be the wizard himself or his beard.
The power source is the fire underneath the shell.
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#24There are two more paintings in this series: Unix Views and Unix Feuds. High quality scans of all three are available on the internet archive.
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#25I would happily pay for a high quality print, but no idea where to get one from.
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#26This is amazing. Does anyone know how to get a physical copy?
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#27#39 skull (dev/null) or daemon
To me it looks like monkey face or like a cats face, a lynx? There is a tap / spigot above but I don't think tap wasn't much of a unix thing back then?
edits:
https://github.com/drio/unixmagic/issues/13
> the top of head has an old time faucet handle and this might be referencing IO redirection (streams) as well as the stream of molten lava/magic brew.
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#28When i see the brick wall i think of the -Wall option in gcc.
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#29When i see the brick wall i think of the -Wall option in gcc.
Hmmm, it could also be the wall(1) program, which was already a part of AT&T Unix!
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#30There are two more paintings in this series: Unix Views and Unix Feuds. High quality scans of all three are available on the internet archive.