This experience is still available at the fruit company for those who are interested.

The ex-NeXT people used to maintain a little museum of running NeXTstep/OpenStep boxes at the Apple campus, and one was a Sun workstation running one of the first builds of NeXTstep. It was unusably slow and difficult to use.

Just want to drop an observation here that the final version of the Unix shell — V6 — that Ken was solely responsible for may have been limited in functionality compared to the V7 shell, but the syntax was much cleaner and less difficult to understand. Mashey and Bourne have much to answer for.

It'd be interesting to see comparisons to contemporary compilers. IIRC, GCC's output was notably not very good back in the day compared to any commercial 68k compiler, although I assume this is a more recent version of GCC.

In casual conversation, yeah. I'll forgive it in classified ads and such; better to be precise with money on the line to prevent misunderstandings.

Looks look Pascal with some arbitrary changes.

https://github.com/mauno-j-ronkko/sharkC64/blob/main/docs/in...

Yeah, this is by the PiDP folks — their most polished effort yet, and they’d already set a high standard. Love to see it.

It's missing the Unix Hater's Handbook:

https://wiki.unix-haters.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=uhf:bib...

specifically Chapter 14: Nightmare File System

I'll take any version where you can shoot the dog. Laugh at me, will you!?

This is accurate. It wasn't Mac vs Apple II. Apple would have liked to have sold more and faster IIgs models, and they couldn't get the CPUs. That's actually why Mark Twain didn't ship. They'd figured out how to do low(er)-cost Macs by the time they could get 4 MHz in quantity.