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• schoen
  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.
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  ozbonus
  There are two more paintings in this series: Unix Views and Unix Feuds. High quality scans of all three are available on the internet archive.
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  badc0ffee
  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).
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  liendolucas
  I would happily pay for a high quality print, but no idea where to get one from.
• thinkingemote
  #39 skull (dev/null) or daemonTo me it looks like monkey face or like a cats face, a lynx? There is a tap / spigot above but I don't think tap wasn't much of a unix thing back then?edits:https://github.com/drio/unixmagic/issues/13> the top of head has an old time faucet handle and this might be referencing IO redirection (streams) as well as the stream of molten lava/magic brew.
• psychoslave
  #28, pwd, looks like a play on words with "powder" that you would put in a box.
• ape4
  How about annotating the word "magic"? Of course there's /etc/magic that's used by the `file` command. By the way it identifies itself, doing `file /etc/magic` works.
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  dmazin
  This is amazing. Does anyone know how to get a physical copy?
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  grandiego
  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.)
• anon
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  yazantapuz
  When i see the brick wall i think of the -Wall option in gcc.