{"id":10290,"date":"2014-06-22T09:26:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T23:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=10290"},"modified":"2014-06-22T09:26:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T23:26:57","slug":"sunday-nerding-the-unix-operating-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2014\/06\/sunday-nerding-the-unix-operating-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Nerding: The UNIX Operating System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of nostaglia today for all the UNIX geeks out there, with a presentation put together by AT&#038;T in 1982 about the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UNIX\">UNIX operating system<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"450\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n  <tr>\n    <td align=\"center\" width=\"450\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tc4ROCJYbm0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<p>While UNIX is still around and in active use in many organisations, most organisations these days make use of Linux-based systems when UNIX-like functionality is required.  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linux\">Linux<\/a> is a UNIX-like operating system, that comes in many different flavours, and chosen for use based on specific need cases.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m one of the old school &#8211; many systems administrators these days know only Linux, and while I almost exclusively use Linux today, I started working on UNIX systems at the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Federation_University_Australia\">University of Ballarat<\/a> in 1993 &#8211; (a System V Release IV machine called &#8220;nova&#8221;, and a System V Release 3.2 machine called &#8220;nugget&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>If I want to be completely accurate, I really first worked on a UNIX machine at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deakin_University\">Deakin University<\/a> in 1992 &#8211; (on a machine called &#8220;eros&#8221;) &#8211; but I was &#8220;only&#8221; doing a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pascal_(programming_language)\">Pascal<\/a> programming course, so never really worked <i>with<\/i> the machine, just <i>on<\/i> the machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of nostaglia today for all the UNIX geeks out there, with a presentation put together by AT&#038;T in 1982 about the UNIX operating system. While UNIX is still around and in active use in many organisations, most organisations these days make use of Linux-based systems when UNIX-like functionality is required. Linux is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[516],"class_list":["post-10290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-sundaynerding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}