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   Liam Proven (lproven@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 23:21:32 JST Liam Proven

   One too many words on AT&T's $2,000 Korn shell and other Usenet topics

   https://blog.gabornyeki.com/2025-12-usenet/

   <- I recently wrote a short piece about the early days of PC Unix. This is what Unix was like before then, in the minicomputer era.

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     Poul-Henning Kamp (bsdphk@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 23:21:31 JST Poul-Henning Kamp

     in reply to

     @lproven

     Ohh man, I had just gotten over that trauma...

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Dec-2025 23:45:45 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @lproven
     > But BSD also added smaller quality of life improvements, like filenames that could be longer than 14 characters
     
     Wait… *opens POSIX.1-2024 spec*
     > {_POSIX_NAME_MAX}
     > Maximum number of bytes in a filename (not including the terminating null of a filename string).
     > Value: 14
     
     Haha, well at last _XOPEN_NAME_MAX is 255 so UNIX® has long filenames now.