A review by noondaypaisley
In the Beginning...Was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson

3.0

An interesting read, and then a very dull read. Stephenson is very articulate about how Operating systems work and very clear in his metaphors and descriptions of their differences. He is very dull about Unix and Linux though. FAR too much detail for the average reader, far too little for the expert.

Interesting to see the things that make this dated now (written in 1999). The first two chapters make this a worthwhile read today, but skip the stuff on Linux.