A Brief History of Unix

Back in 2004, I posted an extremely brief history of Unix to the SDF internal BBS. I recently found a copy of it and am posting it here for posterity.

Published on March 11, 2009. Read more.

Polaroid photo taken at Dr. Bill Stewart's dentist office in 1987. I was in the No Cavity Club!
Stephen would have been disappointed if a movie with a fictional mineral called “Unobtainium” had won Best Picture.
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@RunDNA That *is* a man’s computer. Which version of Solaris does it run? Does it use CDE?
March 5, 2010

Why are people suddenly surprised that Apple is evil?
March 5, 2010

@john_malone Looks like they fixed many of the annoying things in Symfony 1.
February 20, 2010

I wish I could have gone to #pycon. Maybe next year.
February 19, 2010

Problem solved. Satchmo is awesome again.
February 19, 2010

I’m supposed to be able to integrate Satchmo into an existing site. Easier said than done.
February 18, 2010

I was skeptical of the iPhone and I’m skeptical of the iPad. I was wrong about the iPhone, though, so what do I know?
February 10, 2010

@westymatt You know Dutch?
January 4, 2010

@nicolaus I installed Python 2.5 from MacPorts for use with App Engine. Easy to do, and it doesn’t interfere with Apple’s Python install.
December 30, 2009

@codinghorror The question is whether the ladies are still down with Tone Loc.
December 28, 2009