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Re:The Unix Magic Poster by ryan-duve on Monday May 03, 2021 @03:28PM (#27029609)
This is phenomenal. All the eggs I could find are: the spool, pipe, cat, thread (on the far left), shell, boot and fork. Are there any others, not including the characters on the cape and the words on the bags/jars?
Re:The Unix Magic Poster by asyncanup on Monday May 03, 2021 @04:23PM (#27030184)
Books on the bookshelf (top-right) are:

- daemons

- whoami

- traps

- curses

- pwd

- inbox

bags hanging underneath them:

- spawn

- nroff

- dates

- root

a log against the fireplace wall which says "login",

with potion-like bottles saying "uucp"

and the biggest bottle of potion is named "C" (of course),

while an old broken bottle lies on the ground called "B" (of course)

Symbols on the wizard's clothes are all unix symbols:

- $ (default PS1)

- * (glob)

- % (substring)

- > and < (pipe redirection)

Now to the bottom (right to left):

- A jar called "troff"

- A spool called "usr"

- Container called "awk"

- A jar of "oregano"

- Cursive writing on a parchment paper, "shell script"

- A small cup of "tar"

- Another bottle called "diff"

Update: Ah, you said excluding the words! I guess I was too excited to write down what I saw :P

Re:The Unix Magic Poster by hcs on Monday May 03, 2021 @05:03PM (#27030616)
The jar between uucp and C has a label that ends with "ke", could this be "make"?
Re:The Unix Magic Poster by vincent-manis on Monday May 03, 2021 @05:04PM (#27030622)
I assume that the letters jfo on the nroff bag refer to joe ossana, the original author of [nt]roff.
Re:The Unix Magic Poster by layoutIfNeeded on Monday May 03, 2021 @07:18PM (#27032137)
It’s not “inbox” but “mbox”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox
Re:The Unix Magic Poster by cyberge99 on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @01:08AM (#27034248)
The shell represents the Fibonacci sequence.

Double entendre or meta?

Re:The Unix Magic Poster by carbonguy on Monday May 03, 2021 @03:41PM (#27029757)
- The wizard hat says "su," naturally

- The "shell process" (visual pun! I love it) is "outputting to null"

- The hat ribbon has the initials "dmr," "kt," and "bwk" - presumably Dennis M. Ritchie, Ken Thompson, and Brian W. Kernighan

Any others?

Re:The Unix Magic Poster by jchook on Monday May 03, 2021 @07:55PM (#27032425)
Also notice the output faucet is shaped like a cat, as in "cat to null"
Re:The Unix Magic Poster by ChrisMarshallNY on Monday May 03, 2021 @05:01PM (#27030590)
Check out the "steam" rising from the cauldron...
Re:The Unix Magic Poster by kreetx on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @03:23AM (#27034828)
There are pipes on the ceiling.
Re:The Unix Magic Poster by jchook on Monday May 03, 2021 @08:02PM (#27032488)
- the reaper in the background may represent the duty of PID 1, which must reap dead processes. He stands between the workshop (user space?) and the rest of the kingdom & streams (kernel space?)

- The strand from his hat appears to have initials on it: DMR (Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie), KT (Ken Thompson), BWK (Brian Wilson Kernighan)

- SCM branches appear to rise from the ting

- B has a "chip" in it

- The "diff" vessel seems to have a special purpose -- not sure if that's intentional.

Re:The Unix Magic Poster by imwally on Monday May 03, 2021 @03:39PM (#27029731)
UNIX creator's initials on the cap. Dennis Richie, Ken Thompson, Brian Kernighan.
Re:The Unix Magic Poster by dragonfax on Monday May 03, 2021 @04:11PM (#27030053)
I love that he's "pouring" everything into the "shell".
Re:The Unix Magic Poster by chris_wot on Monday May 03, 2021 @03:32PM (#27029657)
There’s a bit bucket hanging from a pipe. And if you look in the window, there is a process reaper.

I’m assuming the boot is fit something, not sure what though.

Re:The Unix Magic Poster by BossHamster on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @03:36AM (#27034882)
Not just any pipe, it's a "broken pipe".
Re:The Unix Magic Poster by bombcar on Monday May 03, 2021 @03:38PM (#27029726)
I think that refers to "booting" a computer.
Re:The Unix Magic Poster by clort on Monday May 03, 2021 @03:38PM (#27029716)
a tap and daemon

some pipes have tee's

Re:The Unix Magic Poster by jayd16 on Monday May 03, 2021 @03:52PM (#27029860)
Log by the fireplace?
Re:The Unix Magic Poster by tashbarg on Monday May 03, 2021 @03:32PM (#27029653)
There’s a bucket, too.
Re:The Unix Magic Poster by markstos on Monday May 03, 2021 @04:45PM (#27030404)
And a cat.