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Quote #172 "Unix Has Been Feverishly Evolving For Over 20 Years, Sort Of Like Bacteria In A Cesspool, Only Less Attractive.
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"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 or well-implemented....
There's always been Tower of Babel sort of bickering inside Unix, but this is the most extreme form ever.
This means at least several years of confusion....
We've got a big intellectual investment in this sort of moving cloud of capability that [Unix] has.
-- William N. Joy...
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 form in which the user could fill out various fields....
fortune cookie n. [WAITS, via Unix; common] A random quote, item of trivia, joke, or maxim printed to the user's tty at login time or (less commonly) at logout time.
Items from this lexicon have often been used as fortune cookies. See cookie file....
fortune cookie: [WAITS, via UNIX] n. A random quote, item of trivia, joke, or maxim printed to the user's tty at login time or (less commonly) at logout time.
Items from this lexicon have often been used as fortune cookies....
Press Release -- For Immediate Release Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA .
..Virtually all version of Linux (and Unix) contain a security hole that allows unauthorized users to gain complete control over the machine....
Making files is easy under the UNIX operating system.
Therefore, users tend to create numerous files using large amounts of file space....