I would happily pay for a high quality print, but no idea where to get one from.
https://jpmens.net/2021/04/09/the-unix-magic-poster/
Awesome, that looks like what I want. Thanks for sharing!
Annotated Unix Magic Poster
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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.
Ahh. Good point! Perhaps a better analogy would be that the brain processing power is represented by the circuitry. I’d be curious to other interpretations for why it appears where it does.
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#33Somehow I had never heard of/seen this before. It looks like a prog rock album cover or something. Some old commands in there I haven't used in a long time (poke, uucp), or never used - I think the troff I know is actually the one in GWBASIC (tracing off).
The TRS-80 has TROFF and TRON! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQoL_qpYbW0 More useful but not quite as magical as DECSYSTEM 10 and DECSYSTEM 20 BASIC's "LISTREVERSE" command! https://web.archive.org/web/20210713130832/https://imgur.com... Chalk one up for DEC and BASIC. What other programming languages support that feature, huh? Now all you need is a COMEFROM and COMESUB and RUNREVERSE (or NUR) statements, and you c…
I liked Rocky Mountain BASIC with it's nice string operations and first class matrix operations.
I think it had a sort function too. But can't remember.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://jpmens.net/2021/04/09/the-unix-magic-poster/
Awesome, that looks like what I want. Thanks for sharing!
I literally just had this printed, following that same blog post. Would recommend Whitewalls, it was a very high quality print. I got the 12x18 size, kind of regret not getting it bigger, but I didn't have the wall space.
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#35This 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-...
They also have absurdly huge TIFFs of all 3 posters if folks are interested:
https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Gary+Overacre%...