Cawifre

Amazing! That’s exactly it!

I would be confident just based on the summary, but I remember that minigame where you pilot the boat in the harbor.

Surely that will never become anachronistic.

Was this before actual hard disk drives became popular?

I remember as a child one of my friends has a very old computer, even for the nineties. All of the programs had to be loaded on with 3.5" floppy disks each time we wanted to run them. There was a cargo ship management game that we messed with that I was too young to understand. I was really interested in “ballast” as cargo because it was zero cost; no wonder I didn’t make any money.

I found this reference to some author origin more than a century old: https://ingeb.org/Lieder/thenight.html

Edit: I misread the heading. J. Mark Sugars is a contemporary source who put together this representative example of a century-old joke.

I’m no expert, but my take on the situation is that POSIX is a very old, very stable, relatively powerful API. If figure out a workflow that uses only POSIX tools, then you have very high confidence that you can reuse that workflow across any POSIX-compliant environment.