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From: Kestral Gaian <kes@kesgai.com>
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Subject: Re: Do you know the UNIX history?
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2024 12:38:09 +0100
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On 17/08/2024 19:00, John McCue wrote:
> Bozo User <anthk@disroot.org> wrote:
>> On 2024-01-09, Moribundo <lindev.null@protonmail.com> wrote:
>>> UNIX history for a dummys (spanish)
>>>
>>> gemini://moribundo.flounder.online/gemlog/2024-01-09-historia-unix.gmi
>>
>> A quick remark: Unix users in the 80's and early 90's used
>> to have GNU tools installed on top as they were far more
>> featureful. And of course lots of them liked Emacs.
> 
> IIRC, this started happening because Sun started charging
> extra for a c compiler.  Before that, c always came with
> UNIX.  Maybe they started charging for other items too(?).

Computing history is littered with projects that started because of 
capitalism/commercialism, and also ended because of 
capitalism/commercialism. I try to remind folk of this when the Windows 
vs Linux debate pops up.

> 
> At work, some GNU userland tools along with GNU c++ is
> installed on AIX, but GNU c is not set up correctly so it
> aborts on compile.
> 
> I ended up staying with AIX c.
>