30 Apr
2005
30 Apr
'05
7:19 a.m.
On Friday 29 April 2005 15:10, Jerry Peek enlightened us thusly:
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:59:21 -0700, Carl Lowenstein
wrote:
I quite agree. I started with some SVR3 UNIX but wound up using
Linux because it was free and worked with the hardware I had at
the time. It's a constant source of pleasure to work with the old
UNIX hands around my shop and learn what my roots are. I even
have some books around here with Jerry Peek's name on them... :-)
Kurt
More power to you. Just keep a sharp eye out for
things that
are touted as "new improved GNU features" that have been around
since the days of 6th Edition or 7th Edition Unix.
Thanks for that wise advice, Carl. I actually started on a VAX
running 4.1 BSD, so I'm not always clear about what's real. ;-)
I've been checking manpages online and trying to keep it straight.
While I'm at it, I wanted to say thanks to Tim Newsham for
reminding me of the paper "Program design in the UNIX environment"
(at http://plan9.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/doc/84/kp.ps.gz) and to Dennis
for his home page (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/index.html --
which I found, BTW, on Tim's "Links" page). Both of them have lots
of fascinating and useful info that took me way back from my GUI
GNU-ey ;-) environment. I've sat here for a couple of hours,
reading and thinking. I'll work this into my August column --
set off in a sidebar or some way to call attention to it.
Today's Linux users need to read and understand this stuff.
It was a great reminder for me. Thanks again, everyone.