9 Quotes on Unix
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I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.
Author:
Jamie Zawinski
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I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.
Author:
Ken Thompson
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UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Author:
Dennis Ritchie
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C was already implemented on several quite different machines and OSs, Unix was already being distributed on the PDP-11, but the portability of the whole system was new.
Author:
Dennis Ritchie
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For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.
Author:
Eric Raymond
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In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.
Author:
Eric Raymond
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If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.
Author:
Eric Raymond
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I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
Author:
Bill Joy
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
Author:
Scott Adams
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