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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 35 points 1 day ago (5 children)

80s programmers hated Unix, btw. Look up Unix Haters Handbook, it's a free and funny read

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

They also hated their local sysadmin. BOFH still holds up in a few key ways.

[–] Prime_Minister_Keyes@lemm.ee 2 points 8 hours ago

Thanks. I didn't know there was a real band called "The Pipi Pickers" and I might have lived on happily without that knowledge.

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 hours ago

Good thing GNU's not Unix

[–] llii@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Unix Haters Handbook

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook

Didn't knew this. It has 360 pages, wow!

EDIT:

The Macintosh on which I type this has 64MB: Unix was not designed for the Mac. What kind of challenge is there when you have that much RAM?

hehe

[–] exu@feditown.com 2 points 20 hours ago

Unix does so many stupid things and we're still stuck with some of them. Especially the terminal section still applies today.