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Tag Name "Unix" (31)

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UNIX is a user-friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more carefully than others.
David Wolfe
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UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
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Unix has retarded OS research by 10 years and linux has retarded it by 20.
Dennis Ritchie
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UNIX does not allow path names to be prefixed by a drive name or number that would be precisely the kind of device dependence that operating systems ought to eliminate.
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
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Unix is a junk OS designed by a committee of PhDs.
Dave Cutler
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UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
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Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history.
Neal Stephenson
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I think Unix is a great system - especially for running data centers - because it is very mature, very reliable, very scalable. But when I want to go out and populate small devices, I think Java.
Bill Joy
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In my experience, telling someone to switch Unix shells for ease of use is like telling him to switch cigarette brands for his health.
Chris Espinosa
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The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected.
Dennis Ritchie
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From an operating system research point of view, Unix is if not dead certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking beyond it.
Dennis Ritchie
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I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.
Donald Knuth
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For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.
Eric S. Raymond
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I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.
Jamie Zawinski
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
Larry Wall
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Many say that DOS is the dark side [from Star Wars], but actually UNIX is more like the dark side: It's less likely to find the one way to destroy your incredibly powerful machine, and more likely to make upper management choke.
Lore Sjoberg
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Everything that I've learned about computers at MIT I have boiled down into three principles: Unix: You think it won't work, but if you find the right wizard, they can make it work. Macintosh: You think it will work, but it won't. PC/Windows: You think it won't work, and it won't.
Philip Greenspun
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Huh? Windows was designed to keep the idiots away from Unix so we could hack in peace. Let's not break that.
Tom Christiansen
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I remarked to Dennis that easily half the code I was writing in Multics was error recovery code. He said, We left all that stuff out of Unix. If there's an error, we have this routine called panic, and when it is called, the machine crashes, and you holler down the hall, 'Hey, reboot it.'
Tom Van Vleck
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How much does it cost to entice a dope-smoking UNIX system guru to Dayton?
Brian Boyle
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Most hackers graduate from Unix and Linux platforms. They know them intimately. They don't try to exploit them
Dean Stockwell
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Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX.
Dennis Ritchie
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It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.
Dennis Ritchie
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Some consider UNIX to be the second most important invention to come out of AT&T Bell Labs after the transistor.
Dennis Ritchie
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