From Brazil's "six" to Italy's "chicks" and Britain's "kicks," one of the mainframe's most famous technologies has inspired decades of linguistic creativity.They Call It "Six" in Brazil The Portuguese word for "six" is seis in Brazil and Portugal. According to...
The Rise of UNIX and Portable Computing “OS/2” There. I said it. And I’ll say it again… but not right away so I don’t seem too fixated on something that inexplicably became an “also ran.” You know what it proved? A bunch of things, beginning with the fact that IBM is...
POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) is a great differentiator between UNIX-like operating systems. Who knew it would also correlate with clunkiness? Of course, POSIX is a family of standards specified by the IEEE Computer Society that endeavored to standardize...