"Just Jeepin'" (macintux)
10/22/2019 at 04:05 • Filed to: shitpost
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"Just Jeepin'" (macintux)
10/22/2019 at 04:05 • Filed to: shitpost | 2
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Speaking as someone who has been using and advocating for Unix for half its (and my) life: you’re welcome!
https://www.bell-labs.com/unix50/
Now if only Unix could help me sleep...
facw
> Just Jeepin'
10/22/2019 at 04:15 |
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I’d just like to say: Fuck Solaris
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Just Jeepin'
> facw
10/22/2019 at 04:22 |
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I liked Solaris, but admittedly it’s been a decade or two.
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facw
> Just Jeepin'
10/22/2019 at 04:31 |
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In college I found it annoying to deal with in a way that IRIX wasn’t (though I don’t remember the specifics). And then doing cross-platform development for it was always a huge pain, as there was always something it handled weirdly, or some useful GNU options it’s tools didn’t support etc. Very frustrating to have it be so close to Linux but just a little off requiring all sorts of workarounds to please a tiny (but important) piece of our customer base. OS X/macOS was always significantly less weird to deal with as far as cross-platform dev went.
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Just Jeepin'
> facw
10/22/2019 at 04:37 |
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I do remember being very unhappy and confused at its compiler, or lack thereof, at my first job. We could pay big money for the Sun compiler, which we weren’t going to do, or we could get gcc, but of course Gnu didn’t even have its own website at the time, just a few pages at MIT, and I didn’t know where to find a pre-compiled gcc binary online .
So I went to my university and worked with the CS department’s sysadmin to put a copy of gcc on...maybe tape? I don’t remember.
The world is very different now, thank goodness.
Thomas Donohue
> Just Jeepin'
10/22/2019 at 10:08 |
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~1997 we had very large, live transaction systems running at a company I worked with. It ran on two platforms, Solaris and OS/2 Server 2.2. They were SOLID. Even t he development servers would run for weeks or months with no errors or reboots. 50+ developers would test code 18+ hours a day, but rarely did I get calls to reset or rebuild the servers. Just delete the locked threads, processes that had memory leaks, etc. The core OS’es were unaffected.
And then the boss came in one day and said “We have to port the system to Windows”...
(I grew to like Win NT Server, but we still rebooted the boxes every 72 hours during the maintenance window just to be safe)
*maintenance ‘Windows’ pun intended
Aremmes
> Just Jeepin'
10/22/2019 at 10:12 |
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Now if only Unix could help me sleep...
Just read the man page for sleep(1).
MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick)
> facw
10/22/2019 at 10:24 |
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My phone takes pictures now