Quote #172
"Unix has been feverishly evolving for over 20 years, sort of like bacteria
in a cesspool, only less attractive."
-- Unix for Dummies
"Unix has been feverishly evolving for over 20 years, sort of like bacteria
in a cesspool, only less attractive."
-- Unix for Dummies
Related:
- In general, [UNIX] has been hacked on by a plethora of graduate students for
many years.
When done this way, things don't tend to be reliable... - There's always been Tower of Babel sort of bickering inside Unix,
but this is the most extreme form ever. This means... - Quote #137
"The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10,
with more expected" -- UNIX Prg Man, 2nd ed, June... - We've got a big intellectual investment in this sort of moving cloud
of capability that [Unix] has.
William N.... - Hacking X for Y n.
[ITS] Ritual phrasing of part of the
information which ITS made publicly available about each user.
This information (the INQUIR record) was a sort of... - fortune cookie n.
[WAITS, via Unix; common] A random
quote,
item of trivia, joke, or maxim printed to the user's... - fortune cookie: [WAITS, via UNIX] n. A random quote,
item of trivia, joke, or maxim printed to the user's... - Press Release -- For Immediate Release
Microsoft Corporation,
Redmond, WA ...Virtually all version of Linux (and... - Making files is easy under the UNIX operating system.
Therefore, users tend to create numerous files using...
