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Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure

From	"Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.privacy.anon-server, alt.os.linux, comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure
Date	2019-09-15 22:39 -0500
Organization	Inner-Dementia-Null Consortium Of Wizardly Dudes
Message-ID	<20190915223927.12bc6263@WizardsTower> (permalink)
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On Sun, 15 Sep 2019 16:20:01 -0600
AnonLinuxUser <Anon@Linuxusers.net> wrote:

> On 9/15/2019 4:04 PM, Johann Beretta wrote:
> > On 8/30/19 12:05 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:  
> >> On 29/08/2019 21:41, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:  
> >>> On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 14:04:05 -0400
> >>> Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> wrote:
> >>>  
> >>>> Linux is some kind of fork from UNIX.  
> >>>
> >>> Not a fork, it is a complete rewrite from scratch and shares no
> >>> code. 
> >> More reverse engineered.
> >>  
> > <snip>
> > 
> > No. It's not reverse engineered. UNIX is well documented. There was
> > no reason to reverse engineer it. Anything you want to know about
> > UNIX can be found in the books written by Ritchie & Thompson.
> > 
> > UNIX inspired Linux. Nothing more.
> >   
> 
> After looking around, I found what Linux was originally intended to
> do... Learn UNIX for free on a PC.  Then the suggestion was to maybe
> be qualified for a UNIX job.  Tho not all of linux is identically the
> same.
> 
<sigh>
Exactly NONE is identically the same, and it was written to learn OS
coding is school.  It had nothing to do with learning Unix, but to
learn the coding necessary to write an OS.  Unix was just the readily
available model, and, just as with an artistic model, there is
absolutely none of the model in the artwork.

SHEESH, history isn't really that hard, people.  Do your duly diligent
reading and understanding.

-- 
Cybe R. Wizard
"Biologist Peter Medawar coined the term bunkrapt to describe believers
in things lacking a scientific basis, like immortal souls, loving gods
or quantum consciousness fields pervading the cosmos."
...or Linux being a copy of <something else>.

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Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure "anon" <anon@anon.com> - 2019-08-29 08:34 -0500
  Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2019-08-29 10:13 -0700
  Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2019-08-29 12:40 -0500
    Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2019-08-29 14:04 -0400
      Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2019-08-29 15:41 -0500
        Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2019-08-29 22:34 +0000
        Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2019-08-30 08:05 +0100
          Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure Rabid Robot <rabid@rob.ot> - 2019-08-30 10:05 -0400
          Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure Johann Beretta <beretta@nun-ya-bizness.com> - 2019-09-15 15:04 -0700
            Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure AnonLinuxUser <Anon@Linuxusers.net> - 2019-09-15 16:20 -0600
              Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2019-09-15 18:26 -0400
              Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2019-09-15 22:39 -0500
                Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2019-09-15 22:43 -0500
                Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2019-09-16 08:26 -0500
                Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure AnonLinuxUser <Anon@Linuxusers.net> - 2019-09-16 08:52 -0600
                Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2019-09-16 11:28 -0500
                Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2019-09-16 17:32 +0100
                Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure AnonLinuxUser <Anon@Linuxusers.net> - 2019-09-16 11:10 -0600
                Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure William Poaster <wp@dev.null> - 2019-09-19 15:26 +0100
                Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure AnonLinuxUser <Anon@Linuxusers.net> - 2019-09-19 08:29 -0600
                Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2019-09-17 05:05 +0000
                Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure AnonLinuxUser <Anon@Linuxusers.net> - 2019-09-17 12:48 -0600
        Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2019-09-03 11:33 +0200
          Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2019-09-03 09:45 -0500
            Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2019-09-04 18:52 +0000
              Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2019-09-04 15:10 -0400
                Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2019-09-04 14:12 -0500
                Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2019-09-04 21:15 +0100
              Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2019-09-04 21:14 +0100
                Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2019-09-04 20:35 +0000
                Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2019-09-04 21:37 +0100
                Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from  failure Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2019-09-04 16:58 -0500
                Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2019-09-05 09:09 +0100
              Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure Rabid Robot <rabid@rob.ot> - 2019-09-04 16:45 -0400
              Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure Johann Beretta <beretta@nun-ya-bizness.com> - 2019-09-15 15:07 -0700
          Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure Johann Beretta <beretta@nun-ya-bizness.com> - 2019-09-15 15:06 -0700
            Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2019-09-15 22:32 -0500
      Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure Rabid Robot <rabid@rob.ot> - 2019-08-29 17:07 -0400
        Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2019-08-30 12:31 -0400
      Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure Johann Beretta <beretta@nun-ya-bizness.com> - 2019-09-15 15:01 -0700
    Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2019-08-29 12:34 -0700
      Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure Johann Beretta <beretta@nun-ya-bizness.com> - 2019-09-16 20:05 -0700
    Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2019-08-29 21:40 +0200
      Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2019-08-29 16:03 -0500
        Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure Johann Beretta <beretta@nun-ya-bizness.com> - 2019-09-16 20:11 -0700
    Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2019-08-29 20:02 +0000
    Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from  failure Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2019-08-29 15:43 -0500
      Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from  failure "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2019-08-29 16:12 -0500
        Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2019-08-31 11:30 +0000
        Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure Johann Beretta <beretta@nun-ya-bizness.com> - 2019-09-16 20:20 -0700
          Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2019-09-17 01:45 -0500
  Re: Unix at 50 How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure "anon" <anon@anon.com> - 2019-09-15 17:31 -0500

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