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Re:Ed(1) mastery is a must for a real Unix person by heyoni on Friday December 15, 2023 @11:49AM (#38655921)
Yea like what's a fake unix person like?
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Re:Ed(1) mastery is a must for a real Unix person by bluetomcat on Friday December 15, 2023 @12:00PM (#38656034)
Someone using WSL 2 on Windows 11, or a macOS user who only knows how to type "ls" in their terminal :-)
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Re:Ed(1) mastery is a must for a real Unix person by RichardCA on Friday December 15, 2023 @04:22PM (#38658995)
Anyone who didn't start during the CRT era, when you couldn't even count on curses support in the terminal.

The "everything is a printer" abstraction started because PDP's that ran V7 Unix at Bell Labs really did use Teletypes for user interaction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter

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