#Unix

Mike Gerdts

OMGerdts

How have I not seen this before? It so needs to be live tweeted.https://archive.org/details/UNIX1985 Why all the excitement about UNIX? And will UNIX become the next MS-DOS? Shortly after showing

Zeth

prozeth

Random thread about browsers and memory:I recently got to use a laptop with 32 GB RAM on a job which is overkill but did allow you to run a ton

Jonathan Pallant

therealjpster

@rustlang targets is like to see - a long-running thread: m68k-apple-systemFor developing for classic Macintosh System 1 to System 7.The lack of a proper name for that OS it's confusing.

Brian Cox

ProfBrianCox

I have a question. @robinince just texted me. The message simply said ‘Lp0’. I think the last character is a zero. What does it mean? I can’t tell you how

Corey Quinn

QuinnyPig

Conversely, let's talk about one of my favorite questions."You find yourself on a box. Maybe it's Linux, maybe it's Unix; it's definitely Unix-like. How do you figure out what operating

Asami 🏳️‍🌈🌹

LadyIronborn

Tim Paterson, of Seattle Computer Products, developed 86-DOS/QDOS as a clone of CP/M. Microsoft bought it out from under him for $75,000 in the early 1980s, immediately turning around and

Paul Smith

paulsmith

i sincerely wish more programmers of the web app / web server / commodity unix-y server ilk (aka my people) were good-faith curious about Cobol and mainframes instead of gawking

Spenser Rapone ☭

Troydiscospider

Welp. It’s my birthday today.Woke up to news that a bunch of comrades have doxed Q.Pretty nice start to the day. here's jim watkins. he's a p*dophile fuckhead who owns

Redd

reddberckley

How does reading and writing to standard streams (stdin, stdout) work? Let's begin with the notion that everything is a "file" in UNIX (should hold true for some other POSIX

LunaSolaria

lunappdev

Neglecting leap seconds, there are 30 years and *12 hours* between 1 Jan 1970 0:00 (the start of the unix "POSIX" epoch that computers use) and 1 Jan 2000 12:00

Canadarmy

canadasysarmy

Are you still thinking about @nerdearla but need a document in english explaining which talks ARE in english, the time-zones and how to register to the event? Well, now you

freakyclown

_Freakyclown_

Not sure how best to share the 100s of photos I took today, but here is a thread of highlights...IBM 401 in action One of my first computers! Working PDP11

Jason Crawford

jasoncrawford

This basically happened to me.It started in 8th-grade algebra and ended with me “dropping out” of high school.https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1199621578280988673 In 8th grade my algebra class was extremely slow and started off

Jessica Joy Kerr

jessitron

I sat down to learn enough PowerShell to recreate one of my bash functions.What have I learned so far? PowerShell prefers long names, and it tries to make them generic.

Jake Hamby

jhamby

My hot take of the day: Windows 10 version 2004 is a better VMS than OpenVMS. The earlier versions were pretty good too, but since OpenVMS isn’t actually open-source (and

J. Paul Reed

jpaulreed

Who out there LOVES THEM SOME CRON?!?!!Or just uses cron?Or... y'know... likes a good story. (Involving cron!!)Well, this is the thread for you... Recently, one of my cron jobs entries