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by Dave Horsfall

Co-inventor of Unix, he was born on this day in 1943. Just think: without those two, we'd all be running M$ Windoze and thinking that it's wonderful. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."

8 years, 6 months

Re: [TUHS] How Unix brings people together, or it's a small world

by Doug McIlroy

As a tourist in Christchurch NZ in 1982, I saw a notice of a student piano recital at the university. Free, why not? The fellow who sat next to me turned out to be a phyicist. On learning that I was a computer scientist, he proudly described his wonderful new computer and operating system--the first of its kind in the university, if I remember correctly. I let on that I was familiar with it, so we both left the recital with a small-world story to tell. Doug

8 years, 6 months

Re: [TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 15, Issue 13

by Doug McIlroy

Charmant. 75k more on your next Loire chateaux tour. Poor Margate Lucy, rooted in (mostly) one place for 135 years. d

8 years, 6 months

Re: [TUHS] Names of famous, historical UNIX machines?

by Rudi Blom

Slartibartfast brings back fond memories of THHGTTG. Of course those in IT simply know that with a Guide and a towel there's no need to panic :-) Cheers, rudi

8 years, 6 months

shared memory on Unix

by Paul Ruizendaal

The presence of some sort of shared memory facility in the BBN V6 Unix kernel got me thinking about the origins of shared memory on Unix. I had a vague recollection that primordial versions were present in either PWB or CB3, but a quick glance at the source indicates that this is not correct. What are the origins of shared memory on Unix, i.e. what came before mmap() and SysV IPC? Was the BBN kernel the first to implement such a facility on Unix? Paul

8 years, 6 months

Questions for TUHS great minds

by Robert Swierczek

Not so long ago I joked about putting a Cray-1 in a watch. Now that we are essentially living in the future, what audacious (but realistic) architectures can we imagine under our desks in 25 years? Perhaps a mesh of ten-million of today's highest end CPU/GPU pairs bathing in a vast sea of non-volatile memory? What new abstractions are needed in the OS to handle that? Obviously many of the current command line tools would need rethinking (ps -ef for instance.) Or does the idea of a single … [View More]

8 years, 6 months

Re: [TUHS] Names of famous, historical UNIX machines?

by Berny Goodheart

You might find this interesting reading: http://www.livinginternet.com/u/ui_netexplodes.htm <http://www.livinginternet.com/u/ui_netexplodes.htm> In particular inhp4. I used to have a UUCP map that linked me into this network back in the mid 80s. I was based in the UK doing some work for Henry Spencer at Microport Systems if any of you recall their iX286 System V port, which was pretty cool. Anyway, there are some interesting machine names mentioned. From: smb(a)ulysses.att.com Subject: … [View More]

8 years, 6 months

Re: [TUHS] Names of famous, historical UNIX machines?

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: Clem Cole > my printers have often been named after chainsaws Yeah, MIT (or was it Proteon, I forget - a long time ago :-) had that theme going for a while for printers... > @ DEC we were pretty free to use what we wanted and some were themed, > most were boring. Hah! I do have a cosmically great computer naming story from DEC, though. So DECNet host names were limited to N characters (where N=8, or some such). So one day they get this complaint from some … [View More]

8 years, 6 months

Re: [TUHS] shared memory on Unix

by jnc＠mercury.lcs.mit.edu

> From: "Steve Johnson" > The meetings went on for over a year, but _I NEVER MET WITH THE SAME > PERSON TWICE!_ It seemed that the only thing the marketing group knew > how to do was reorganize the marketing group... Shades of SI:Electric-Marketing (I _think_ that was its name) on the Symbolics LISP Machine... (For those who never had the joy of seeing this, it randomly drew a bunch of boxes with people in them on the screen in a hierarchy, connected them, and then … [View More]

8 years, 6 months

v6 lecture notes

by helbig＠mailbox.org

Hi, my site at the ba-stuttgart was removed. It hosted course ware for my unix v6 lecture. This includes: Unix Programmer's Manual (aka man pages) Documents for use with the Unix Time-Sharing System prepared as postscript files. I provided the man pages as HTML-pages with the references replaced by links. The lecture notes contain tips for installing v6 on the simh emulator, a description of the pdp11 instruction set and hardware as well as a description of unix v6, including booting, kernel … [View More]

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