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Annotated Unix Magic Poster

Annotated Unix Magic Poster

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·April 5, 2025
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schoen

I think the spool with usr written on it most likely refers to the /usr/spool directory, where user mailboxes (and I think print jobs) were traditionally kept.

badc0ffee

Somehow I had never heard of/seen this before. It looks like a prog rock album cover or something.

Some old commands in there I haven't used in a long time (poke, uucp), or never used - I think the troff I know is actually the one in GWBASIC (tracing off).

psychoslave

#28, pwd, looks like a play on words with "powder" that you would put in a box.

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grandiego

The #38 is controversial as noted. To me it represents the branching of Unix flavors, mostly derived from the AT&T and BSD versions (represented by the glasses.)

nine_k

To me, the stuff that grows from a shell invocation must be a process tree.