One too many words on AT&T's $2k Korn shell and other Usenet topics
This post dives into the Usenet archives and covers 1980s online discussions about Unix, BSD, and historical hardware.
Usenet provides a window into the Unix and BSD systems of the 1980s, and some of the hardware that they ran on. Discussions were slow. Computers were expensive. GNU Emacs was big. AT&T charged a … [+83561 chars]