#/bin/more stephenson
Thanks to P for pointing out that Stephenson’s essay In the Beginning was the Command Line just happened to be hanging out on the web. Sweet.
Windows 95 and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture. It is our Gilgamesh epic.
