UNIX prediction from 1985
This is fairly amusing. As you may know, I frequently note that at the
Linux, etc. command line level, we still mostly use the same
UNIX-derived commands and tools that date back to UNIX Version 6 and
earlier of many decades ago. It is frequently argued that this is
because Ken, Dennis, and the rest of the Bell Labs gang got these
right in the first place.
In any case, here is a clip from 1985's "The Computer Chronicles" --
so almost 40 years ago -- explaining how UNIX commands like "ls" were
too complicated and would be rapidly replaced with DOS-like command
line tools.
Or, uh, as it turned out ... NOT! -L
https://youtu.be/0DdoGPav3fc?t=265
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