Could Unix happen today?
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| The original Unix only ran on 9,000 lines of code, Kernighan noted.
| In comparison, the latest Linux kernel has over 6 million lines of
| code Today, even the comments of a simple operation such as cat
| (a copy command) can run three MAN pages. "It shouldn't be like
| that," he said. "Bigger is not necessarily better."
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http://www.gcn.com/blogs/tech/44204.html
A month on the command line -- Day 1
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| I'm tired of debating the relative merits of Linux's various desktop
| environments and distributions. Tired of reading about them, tired of
| writing about them.
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| So today an experiment begins:
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| My month at the command line.
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http://www.insidesocal.com/click/2007/05/a_month_on_the_command_line_da.html
Related:
Death of the command line
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| It's hard for me to imagine using an OS without a strong command line.
| Even Microsoft has recognized the for that with their Monad Shell
| (though they are at least temporarily removing that from Vista). Linux
| of course has its Bash shell, Mac OS X has Terminal (which now defaults
| to Bash) - everybody knows you need a shell.
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http://aplawrence.com/Unixart/command_line_death.html
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