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I once saw a talk from Brian Kernighan who made a joke about how in three weeks Ken Thompson wrote a text editor, the B compiler, and the skeleton for managing input/output files, which turned out to be UNIX. The joke was that nowadays we're a bit less efficient :-D

Software archeology

I love browsing the tuhs mailing list from time to time. Awesome to see names like Ken Thompson and Rob Pike, and a bunch of others with perhaps less recognizable names but who were involved in the early UNIX and computing scene.

Spock levels of fascinating from me. I want to learn how to compile a pdp11 emulator on my mac.

I love this!

first time I see people use 'ed' for work!!!

I wonder who else has to deal with ed also... recently I had to connect to an ancient system where vi was not available, I had to write my own editor, so whoever needs an editor for an ancient system, ping me (it is not too fancy).

amazing work by the creators of this software and by the researchers, you have my full respect guys. those are the real engineers!

1328 bytes for a hello world? BLOAT!

Can anyone provide a reference on what those file permissions mean? I can make a guess but when I searched around, could not find anything about unix v2 permissions. ls output looks so familiar, except for the sdrwrw!

Recovering RF tapes, even a simple text file demonstrates buffer space that is not being used by the dos, or .iso file. Even in a 2.11 BSD distro, a default tiling and window manager has to be installed on the native OS. So yes, going with KDE or the X11 wm.

Cool. Can we enter that time portal and live in that alternate reality?