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One too many words on AT&T's $2k Korn shell and other Usenet topics

  • Gábor Nyéki--Gabornyeki.com
  • published date: 2025-12-08 10:43:35 UTC

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]