I think the spool with usr written on it most likely refers to the /usr/spool directory, where user mailboxes (and I think print jobs) were traditionally kept.
I would happily pay for a high quality print, but no idea where to get one from.
This is amazing. Does anyone know how to get a physical copy?
The Internet Archive offers a 32Mb PNG file. Download that one and take it to your local print shop.
https://archive.org/details/unix-magic-poster-gary-overcare-...
One of the previous times this was posted, someone offered to print and ship them. I got a A2 sized canvas print. It hangs in my home office now.
#28, pwd, looks like a play on words with "powder" that you would put in a box.
Somehow I had never heard of/seen this before. It looks like a prog rock album cover or something.
Some old commands in there I haven't used in a long time (poke, uucp), or never used - I think the troff I know is actually the one in GWBASIC (tracing off).
The #38 is controversial as noted. To me it represents the branching of Unix flavors, mostly derived from the AT&T and BSD versions (represented by the glasses.)
To me, the stuff that grows from a shell invocation must be a process tree.
Quite. I felt reminded of Git but it did not exist yet in the 1980s.
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