Punched Cards? Sheer Bloody Luxury

Re:Punched Cards? Sheer Bloody Luxury by zzo38computer on Monday March 23, 2020 @09:28PM (#22670868)

Troff is still used (mostly for man pages, I think), and VT100 escape codes are still common, and I don't know what is meant by UNIX being "only for system stuff".

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Re:Punched Cards? Sheer Bloody Luxury by commandlinefan on Thursday March 26, 2020 @04:31PM (#22697665)

> UNIX being "only for system stuff"

At first I thought he meant server-side, but OS/X is as Unix as Linux is or even Solaris was.

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Re:Punched Cards? Sheer Bloody Luxury by CarlRJ on Thursday March 26, 2020 @04:47PM (#22697816)

macOS (neé OS X) is actually more Unix than Linux, as it is certified.

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Re:Punched Cards? Sheer Bloody Luxury by dfox on Thursday March 26, 2020 @07:59PM (#22699243)

That certainly says more about the certification process than about unix-ness of macOS ;)

On the other hand large fraction of UNIX(TM) certified OSes are in fact niche Linux distributions (IIRC mostly RHEL derivates).

In all it is mostly about nobody giving a damn about the certification outside of very specialized applications.

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Re:Punched Cards? Sheer Bloody Luxury by seibelj on Thursday March 26, 2020 @04:26PM (#22697615)

Maybe he meant unix v7? I'm sure a lot of stuff still runs on it, somewhere...

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