OS Chauvinism

Had a good experience with Debian

Had a good experience with Debian

Bruce Ediger

I had been hosting this blog on a $5 a month VPS from Host the Best, but they have been shut down by the data center they’re renting from. Host the Best is apparently not dealing with abusive customers effectively.

There’s no projected service restoration date.

wc -l

wc -l

Bruce Ediger

Unix, and now Linux, have included a wc command for a very long time. Most explanations of its use are misleading fluff and garbage, and do not give you an appreciation of its true value.

Folders Are Bad

Folders Are Bad

Bruce Ediger

I’ve written before about how much I despise baby talk descriptions of operating system abstractions as promoted by Microsoft.

The use of “folder” is particularly pernicious.

CP/M and VAX/VMS Memory Layout

Bruce Ediger

It’s often said that DEC operating systems influenced the design of the CP/M microcomputer OS. Let’s examine that assertion by looking at how a process was laid out in memory.