2 Dec
2011
2 Dec
'11
5:58 p.m.
On 03/12/11 12:23 PM, Tom wrote:
Interesting article about the 40th anniversary of the
progenitor of many
modern operating systems. It even mentions our very own Al Kossow,
"One holy grail that eluded us for a long time was the first edition of
Unix in any form, electronic or otherwise. Then, in 2006, Al Kossow from
the <http://www.computerhistory.org/>Computer History Museum, in
Mountain View, Calif., unearthed a printed study of Unix dated 1972,
which not only covered the internal workings of Unix but also included a
complete assembly listing of the kernel, the main component of this
Then there is the Lions book (Copyright 1977, a Commentary on Unix 6th
Edition), reprinted as a modern facsimile edition by Peer-to-Peer
Communications in 1996, with a foreword by Dennis Ritchie.
operating system. This was an amazing find?like
discovering an old Ford
Model T collecting dust in a corner of a barn. But we didn't just want
to admire the chrome work from afar. We wanted to see the thing run again."
http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-strange-birth-and-long-life…
I love the picture of the very first man page.
Knock yourself out:
* http://code.google.com/p/unix-jun72/
* http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V1/man/man1
This is a masterpiece of concision:
http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V1/man/man1/date.1
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