GentleMan GefMar 6
This is where I toot from
Show threadoccultMar 6

@SecularJeffrey @catsalad

same caption, different photo.

https://vox.ominous.net/@occult/116103841606429399

Show threadCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠Mar 6
@occult @SecularJeffrey This is the computing future I want!
Show threadoccultMar 6

@catsalad Will I see you at UNIX EXPO this year?

I hear pink computers and floppy disks are debuting!

#UNIX

Show threadCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠Mar 6
@occult Oh heck yeah!
Show threadoccultMar 6

@catsalad I know these were super serious UNIX business magazines back in 1985, but today they would literally be the cover of some punk zine.

#UNIX

Show threadNuclear OatmealMar 6

@occult @catsalad

No. No... NO! I WAS PROMISED!

I DESTROYED THE OLD MAN'S SOUL AND I WOULD NEVER SEE XENIX AGAIN!!! THE *WORLD* WOULD NEVER SEE XENIX AGAIN!!!

The gods have betrayed me and the only solution now is to destroy the gods. No future innocents shall be subjected to the sheer depravity of Xenix.

Nay, I say.

Show threadCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠Mar 6
@NuclearOatmeal @occult You thought you could escape. 
Show threadNuclear OatmealMar 6

@catsalad @occult

Man... Our in-house system was AT&T Unix. Spiffy!

The CEO however, kept making deals with folks setting up Xenix, because whatever the inventory processing software sold only ran on Xenix, and guess who they sent out to get these systems up and running?

I hate Xenix.

Show threadAaron Sawdey, Ph.D.1d ago

@NuclearOatmeal @catsalad @occult How much of that was just that the 286 really sucked vs Xenix adding another layer to a shit sandwich?

Also not to be confused with venix - another crappy port of v7 unix to hardware that really shouldn't run it.

Show threadNuclear Oatmeal

@acsawdey @catsalad @occult

I couldn't give you an honest answer. It's been ~40 years since then, and I really didn't have much technical knowledge. I just knew how to run commands *and* I knew how to exit vi, so I knew I rocked.

Mar 20 at 3:39pmWeb
Show threadAaron Sawdey, Ph.D.1d ago
@NuclearOatmeal @catsalad @occult My prejudice was probably that I'd been spoiled by BSD unix by then so v7 seemed pretty primitive.