What UNIX Cost Us 🚩

Benno Rice

https://lca2020.linux.org.au/schedule/presentation/28/

UNIX is a hell of a thing. From starting as a skunkworks project in Bell Labs to accidentally dominating the computer industry it's a huge part of the landscape that we work within. The thing is, was it the best thing we could have had? What could have been done better?

Join me for a bit of meditation on what else existed then, what was gained, what was lost, and what could (and should) be re-learned.

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Wed Jan 15 13:30:00 2020 at Room 5