Re: Do you know the UNIX history?

On 17/08/2024 19:00, John McCue wrote:

Bozo User <anthk@disroot.org> wrote:

On 2024-01-09, Moribundo <lindev.null@protonmail.com> wrote:

UNIX history for a dummys (spanish)
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gemini://moribundo.flounder.online/gemlog/2024-01-09-historia-unix.gmi

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A quick remark: Unix users in the 80's and early 90's used
to have GNU tools installed on top as they were far more
featureful. And of course lots of them liked Emacs.

 IIRC, this started happening because Sun started charging
extra for a c compiler.  Before that, c always came with
UNIX.  Maybe they started charging for other items too(?).

Computing history is littered with projects that started because of capitalism/commercialism, and also ended because of capitalism/commercialism. I try to remind folk of this when the Windows vs Linux debate pops up.

 At work, some GNU userland tools along with GNU c++ is
installed on AIX, but GNU c is not set up correctly so it
aborts on compile.
 I ended up staying with AIX c.