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In many ways the 1980s are a lost decade of #Unix, as during the 1990s and 2000s the cloners spent a lot of time reinventing 1980s stuff and working from 1970s samizdat knowledge, sometimes not knowing that the work had been done.

There were whole swaths of improvements and stuff that the cloners of the 1990s didn't have the money to even find out about.

I've written up a paltry few.

http://jdebp.info/FGA/inittab-getty-is-history.html

#init #inittab #MMDF
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