Oct 16, 2026, 10:00 PM@zzt teaser for the thing I am writing:
"This resulted in Stallman taking the first draft of his unhinged plans to make a UNIX replacement and nailing them to the doors of the net.unix-wizards and net.usoft newsgroups in September of 1983."
Oct 16, 2026, 10:18 PM@zzt another teaser, I love this line I wrote:
"apparently Berkeley pulling off a Ship of Theseus with the entire UNIX operating system really pissed off the phone company."
Oct 16, 2026, 10:18 PM@techokami ooh I like where this is going
Oct 16, 2026, 10:19 PM@zzt yeah I'm hitting the weird shit in UNIX history to talk about this one kid's hobby project
Oct 16, 2026, 10:20 PM
@techokami @zzt Which one? I've ripped into him a lot over the years...
Oct 16, 2026, 11:03 PM
@techokami @zzt The big draw with linux was that it ran on Intel 386s and so you could get a Unix workstation for half the price of Sun/DEC/SGI etc.
Oct 16, 2026, 11:20 PM@zzt dunno if you didn't see it but https://woof.tech/@techokami/117453095072801952 it is done
Oct 17, 2026, 10:36 AM@techokami ooh thank you! I’ll take a look today!