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Old 07-28-2017, 03:32 AM   #746
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Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
My error. I had temporarily forgotten about the escape character usage. Thanks for the catch. Unix has such a nice command line it is unfortunate that Microsoft messed with it some 10 years later.

Dale
Such a nice command line, LOL.

Way back in time, at college, a friend did this:

rm -rf .

logged in as root, and accidentally at the root of the file system.

Unix unblinkingly destroyed the whole file system. They've taken away the ability to destroy everything so easily but it was there back in the day.

I think he might have been on a PDP-11, or a Data General MV8000, I don't recall which. It was 2am and he was tired. Should we be punished so severely for our mistakes?

Will anyone mention the seminal work done at Xerox PARC? Apple and Microsoft both ripped off the work of Alan Kay, the father of personal computing. They ripped off the windowing system but they just didn't know that they should have ripped off Smalltalk because they didn't understand it. Jobs admitted as much in an article in the NY Times a few years ago. Smalltalk was, and is, a far more interesting operating system than Unix.

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