Have any of you ever tried reading some of the old Unix magazines from the mid-80's? They're very entertaining reads, and really show how attitudes in computing have changed over time but also how certain arguments will always be the same. Complexity versus simplicity, anyone?
I just read a great issue covering the debate over whether Unix could successfully be scaled up to mainframe computers from its traditional networked VAX environment. What an idea, people not being certain if Unix was suitable for big compute projects!
A lot of the magazines are available on the Internet Archive, which is where I'm reading them: https://archive.org/search?query=unix
3 weeks ago · 👍 chluehr, hanzbrix, fripster, bavarianbarbarian, chirale, mimas, teekay
https://archive.org/search?query=unix
@idx2 This one here: https://archive.org/details/Unix_Review_1984_Oct.pdf/page/n23/mode/2up?view=theater · 3 weeks ago
https://archive.org/details/Unix_Review_1984_Oct.pdf/page/n23/mode/2up?view=theater
This? this right here? this is why I love station and Gemini culture. cool stuff like this!
would love to read that article on mainframe scaling (I'm a fan of pre-Z systems haha) - what issue was it in? · 3 weeks ago
i have been there, 3000 years ago... Solaris, hpux, irix, bs2000, AIX... i have seen'em all... · 3 weeks ago
followed up on the tip! was nice… thanks! · 3 weeks ago