[Jukebox-list] Powersupply AMI-H resistor

[Steve Wahl]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 03:33:20PM -0500, mike wrote:
> I didnt see that anyone took a stab at a definition of UNIX  so HYG:

Close, but...

> UNIX is a very memory efficient

Current versions are as bloated as most other things...

	"... the whole documentation is not unreasonably transportable in a
	student's briefcase."  --- John Lions describing UNIX 6th Edition

	"This has since been fixed in recent versions." --- Kernighan & Pike 

(and those quotes date from the early '80s or maybe the '70s)

> computer operating system that was originally designed by the
> government. 

Originally designed at AT&T; but a lot of additional work was done by
UC Berkely under a grant from the department of defense (pretty much
THE original implementation of the internet, or at least the
definitive reference -- Microsoft used the BSD Unix internet protocol
code up to a certain point; I think it's still in XP but gone in
Vista? )...

> Its more command line driven

Doesn't have to be; current linux installations can get most things
done with a mouse.  And see Mac-OS comment below.

> than the happy point-and-click Windows interface that so many of us
> have come to know and love.

Barely resisting snide remark about you guys loving windows...

> There are several versions of the UNIX operating system such as SUN 
> SOLARIS, HP-UX, LINUX, etc.

Linux is a work-alike, rebuilt from the ground up and doesn't share
any original source code with Unix (at least it's not supposed to; SCO
apparently believes differently).

Also, Mac OS-X is based on a Unix variant.  On that one the command
line is a wee bit harder to find (but it is there).

> Many corporations run their business critical applications on SUN or
> HP UNIX platforms.

And some computer science geeks (like me) prefer Unix or Linux for
various reasons, such as transparency -- you can figure out what's
happening and why; counter example would be stuff burried deep in the
windows registry.

As to the original post, the suggestion that Wes would like it was
because there's often more than one way to do things; however, the
programming language "perl" would really be what he's looking for.
Perl's motto is: "There's more than one way to do it."

Sorry to dive so off topic!

--> Steve

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