Please don’t be shocked, but I’ve been reading old #UNIX Review magazines on Archive.org, as one does.
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It's summer, 1985.
I get a call from my buddy to open this month’s issue of UNIX WORLD magazine to page 110.
I see they are preparing to standardize the C programming language.
I say, “This is a good thing" under my breath.
I am still punk as fuck.
@occult ANSI C FOR LIFE
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult @bert_hubert we can still get there! 3 years left!
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Hey #Fediverse! See you all at the 1985 California Computer Show.
@occult
It's only March. That's in May.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult give ai access to nuclear bombs and it will playout with punch cards
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They should re-create this steel-bound UNIX reference manual.
@occult giving new meaning to "throwing the book at someone"
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult that did remind me of the Turbo Pascal advertisement I found in our university basement: https://hci.social/@floe/111726303354095761
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From a 1991 SunExpert magazine article about “What’s to come” for network protocols. The article depicts a man traveling into the 2020’s, seemingly unaware of the chaos he’ll find.
He’s going to pass @prahou traveling back in time to 1991 to get some mint condition Sun workstations.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult She's re-charging the time portals so the systems will keep running after the clock strikes midnight 2038. She has less than 9 years to make it work... will she make it in time?
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult and nowadays we had the Wii controllers; 3D cameras for gesture recognition. Though personally I think it would have been cool to have a capacitance-based interface, like a theremin. I suppose the cameras are immune to electrical interference though.
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Editor: quick! I need art to accompany the article on internationalization of #UNIX for our Dec 1985 issue!
Illustrator on shrooms: say no more.
@occult Ha! Incredible thread of ads and art from copies of Unix Review from the 80s.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult @forestine they were right, the internet *is* full of gay women with bangs using unix derivatives
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@occult Ha! Incredible thread of ads and art from copies of Unix Review from the 80s.
@pinkpolonium I’ve been reading the articles, and I find it all fascinating. Especially the areas of computing that have not changed one bit!
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult It’s not too late to make this a reality!
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@occult @forestine they were right, the internet *is* full of gay women with bangs using unix derivatives
@jepyang @forestine yeah like, by Mrch 2029 this actually will be a 100% accurate prediction. I'm impressed.
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@pinkpolonium I’ve been reading the articles, and I find it all fascinating. Especially the areas of computing that have not changed one bit!
@occult Incredible. My dad was a punchcard-era techie, and I often wonder what he’d find similar vs. horrifically alien about computing then and now.
Such a cool thread and thanks for posting!
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult we’ve got three more years to make this happen
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@occult we’ve got three more years to make this happen
@what I'm pretty sure it has happened!
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Oh, this is good...
From UNIX World, 1985: "It finds the subtle bugs in my C programs" - Claude B. Finn.
40 years later, people are using Claude to find bugs in programs. What's old is new again.
#Anthropic #LLM #Claude #ClaudeCode #AI #Security #Programming #UNIX #C
40 years of 'AI finds the bugs' and the main productivity gain is that the debugging conversation is now with a chatbot instead of a rubber duck.
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Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.
@occult That's the most fun looking zeerust I've seen in 15 years.
