* [TUHS] Interview with Brian Kernighan
@ 2003-07-29 14:40 Kenneth Stailey
2003-07-29 14:57 ` M. Warner Losh
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From: Kenneth Stailey @ 2003-07-29 14:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7035&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
some quotes:
<< LJ: Is it true that you suggested the name "UNIX" for the long ago OS,
Multics? What does that word mean?
BK: Yes, long ago. Multics was an acronym for something like Multiplexed
Information and Computing Service, and it was big and complicated because it
had many of everything. I suggested Unics for Ken's new system, because it was
small and had at most one of anything. (Multi and uni are both Latin roots, so
it was a very weak pun.) Someone else spelled it with the letter X; no one can
remember who. >>
<< LJ: What UNIX OSes do you like? Linux? BSD?
BK: The way I use them, which is as a casual programmer, it doesn't
matter--they are all the same. If I encounter some difference, it only makes me
mad, because there really isn't any reason for things to be different most of
the time. I use Solaris at Princeton, Irix when I visit Bell Labs, and FreeBSD
on my Mac; I also have Cygwin on several PCs so that standard tools are readily
available. >>
But Brian, FreeBSD does not run on a Mac unless you don't need features like
booting up all the way.
http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html
<< 3 July, 2002 : This page has been significantly updated. FreeBSD/PowerPC
currently boots almost to the point of reaching single-user mode. >>
Oh well.
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* [TUHS] Interview with Brian Kernighan
2003-07-29 14:40 [TUHS] Interview with Brian Kernighan Kenneth Stailey
@ 2003-07-29 14:57 ` M. Warner Losh
2003-07-29 18:43 ` Kenneth Stailey
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From: M. Warner Losh @ 2003-07-29 14:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
In message: <20030729144024.91368.qmail at web10009.mail.yahoo.com>
Kenneth Stailey <kstailey at yahoo.com> writes:
: FreeBSD on my Mac;
...
: But Brian, FreeBSD does not run on a Mac unless you don't need features like
: booting up all the way.
There was a FreeBSD/68k port in the 1.1 time frame. It was never
integrated into the main FreeBSD sources due to The Lawsuit and
FreeBSD starting over with 4.4-lite.
Warner
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* [TUHS] Interview with Brian Kernighan
2003-07-29 14:57 ` M. Warner Losh
@ 2003-07-29 18:43 ` Kenneth Stailey
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From: Kenneth Stailey @ 2003-07-29 18:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
--- "M. Warner Losh" <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> In message: <20030729144024.91368.qmail at web10009.mail.yahoo.com>
> Kenneth Stailey <kstailey at yahoo.com> writes:
> : FreeBSD on my Mac;
> ...
> : But Brian, FreeBSD does not run on a Mac unless you don't need features
> like
> : booting up all the way.
>
> There was a FreeBSD/68k port in the 1.1 time frame. It was never
> integrated into the main FreeBSD sources due to The Lawsuit and
> FreeBSD starting over with 4.4-lite.
>
> Warner
Actually, I just figured out that when BK said "FreeBSD on Mac" he meant "Mac
OS X". (Doh!)
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* [TUHS] Interview with Brian Kernighan
@ 2003-07-29 14:53 Norman Wilson
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From: Norman Wilson @ 2003-07-29 14:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
Kenneth Stailey:
But Brian, FreeBSD does not run on a Mac unless you don't need features like
booting up all the way.
=======
I think that just underscores the point: it doesn't matter which
church the system goes to as long as it works.
If everyone was as areligious in their computing the world would
be a much better place.
Norman Wilson
Toronto ON
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