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Foreword................................................................................ xv

By Donald A. Norman

Preface..................................................................................... xix

Things Are Going to Get a Lot Worse

Before Things Get Worse

Who We Are............................................................................... xxi

The UNIX-HATERS History ................................................... xxiii

Contributors and Acknowledgments........................................ xxix

Typographical Conventions .................................................... xxxii

The UNIX-HATERS Disclaimer ........................................... xxxiii

Anti-Foreword............................................................... xxxv

By Dennis Ritchie

Part 1: User Friendly?............................................... 1

1 Unix.............................................................................................. 3

The World’s First Computer Virus

History of the Plague..................................................................... 4

Sex, Drugs, and Unix .................................................................... 9

Standardizing Unconformity....................................................... 10

Unix Myths ................................................................................. 14

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