• What is UNIX? (was: Hot T

    From Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to FUSION on Friday, October 03, 2025 10:17:35
    AIX, HP-UX, macOS, Xinuos, z/OS (see "Single UNIX Specification", wikipedia)

    since i suspect there aren't users of 4 of those on dovenet (the most likely being perhaps AIX), might i suggest this echo be used only for macOS?

    I was a professional user of z/OS until recently. ;) I used several
    console utilities that "sat on top of" it, but I only got down to using
    things from the *nix command line once or twice.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Dumas Walker on Saturday, October 04, 2025 09:27:32
    Dumas Walker wrote to FUSION <=-

    I was a professional user of z/OS until recently. ;) I used several console utilities that "sat on top of" it, but I only got down to using things from the *nix command line once or twice.

    That list reminded me of some of the "weird" UNIXes out there, like
    Primos - it ran on top of PRIME/OS on big CDC iron. That was the
    closest my college came to UNIX, it was great for teaching shell
    scripts and BASH to tons of college students, but you couldn't develop
    on it.

    This was the late '80s. After the weed-out CS classes and a class in
    assembler on a VAX 11/750, we did all of our compiling on our own PCs.
    Most people used Turbo C, but I was the oddball (go figure?), I had a
    deal from the bookstore on Microsoft QuickC, but ended up using EMACS
    as an IDE with Mark Williams C, with a BASH shell and *nix* commands
    for DOS.



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