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Misleading title, I thought we has writing his book on an ancient AT&T UNIX mainframe. He's using Linux or MacOS, bfd. Why do people throw around the word Unix to describe Linux is beyond me. MacOS claims it's Unix too, they payed some organization to get them a Unix cert, but we all know it's BSD/Mach/Darwin rewrite. Nobody is really using the original Unix.

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It's because most people don't confuse the etymology or history of a term with its actual use and current meaning -- and aren't stuck up with BS pedantic distinctions.

There's no "original Unix" (except the first Unix back in the day). There's lineage of operating systems.

Heck, even the people who actually created UNIX in the 70s and early 80s don't have such stickups.

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