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Preface Things Are Going to Get a Lot Worse Before Things Get Worse “I liken starting one’s computing career with Unix, say as a ...

xx Preface Deficient by Design The original Unix solved a problem and solved it well, as did the Roman numeral system, the mercu ...

Who We Are xxi Who We Are We are academics, hackers, and professionals. None of us were born in the computing analog of Ken Pier ...

xxii Preface Our story started when the economics of computing began marching us, one by one, into the Unix Gulag. We started pa ...

The UNIX-HATERS History xxiii bolics Lisp Machine (affectionately known as a LispM), one of two state- of-the-art AI workstation ...

xxiv Preface Date: Fri, 27 Feb 87 21:39:24 EST From: John Rose To: sun-users, systems Pros and Cons of Suns Well, I’ve got a spa ...

The UNIX-HATERS History xxv Logged into a Sun for the last few days, my Meta-Point reflex has continued unabated, but it is comp ...

xxvi Preface Eventually my Emacs window decides it’s time to close up for the day. What has happened? Two things, apparently. On ...

The UNIX-HATERS History xxvii mouse-sensitive Lisp forms). Or safe tagged architecture that rigidly distinguishes between pointe ...

xxviii Preface lence as givens, and, as ancient shamans did, display their wounds, some self-inflicted, as proof of their power ...

Contributors and Acknowledgments xxix tory and is an expert on teaching good manners to computers. He insti- gated this book in ...

xxx Preface Rich Salz is a Principal Software Engineer at the Open Software Foundation, where he works on the Distributed Comput ...

Typographical Conventions xxxi Neuhaus, who saw the project through to its completion. Amy Pedersen was our Imprint Manager. The ...

xxxii Preface The UNIX-HATERS Disclaimer In these days of large immoral corporations that compete on the basis of superior softw ...

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Anti-Foreword By Dennis Ritchie From: [email protected] Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 00:38:07 EST Subject: anti-foreword To t ...

xxxvi Anti-Foreword patible with the existing ones, albeit with more features. The journalist with three undergraduate degrees f ...

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