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[nerd] happy 50th, UNIX
 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2019-08-30 04:15 [#02584510]
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Still, the team felt this was an accomplishment and
christened their operating system “UNICS,” short for
UNIplexed Information and Computing System. (At least,
that’s the official explanation. According to Multics'
history site, multicians.org, the pronunciation, like
“eunuchs,” was considered doubly appropriate because the
team viewed this new operating system, running on an
obsolete hand-me-down computer, as “Multics without any
balls.”)


...and here i was -- thinking that this was a meme which
evolved in the early 00s.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2019-08-30 04:16 [#02584511]
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offline belb from mmmmmmhhhhzzzz!!! on 2019-08-30 22:50 [#02584554]
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only 19 years until unix 'splodes though. maybe


 

offline belb from mmmmmmhhhhzzzz!!! on 2019-08-30 22:51 [#02584555]
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oops


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2019-09-03 23:50 [#02584696]
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not only do we have this "'year' problelm" problem, but unix
timestamps also have a fixed precision. clearly, we should
switch to a timestamp format that works like floating point
numbers (IEEE 754)


 


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