This is a 1994 book about the many woes that Unix derived systems brought to sysadmins that were used to other solutions. Considering the number of commands that Linux still uses, it’s definitely worth a read.

  • yianiris@kafeneio.social
    5·
    6 months ago

    I had a brief opportunity to play around with an AT&T workstation running unix, more like a 386 than any sun/sgi machine that costed as 2 new sportscars. It had a very brief life, despite of the quality of the box, it was pretty useless. Slow as hell windows 95 would run circles around it.

    Then out comes DEC/Alpha with Dec’s unix, was it ultrix? And in those machines later windows NT was also ported, so it was a testbed between the two worlds. Then RHat CDs rained on us
    @jollyrogue @eah

    • jollyrogue
      2·
      6 months ago

      Wikipedia says Ultrix was VAX, and OSF/1 and Tru64 Unix were Alpha.

      • yianiris@kafeneio.social
        3·
        6 months ago

        I am almost certain the first system alpha was ported to was ultrix, those other ones didn’t exist yet. Probably developed for alpha, but on its pre-release demo I saw it was ultrix. Sometimes I confused ultrix with sgi/irix
        @jollyrogue