I do something with IT Security...I love old computers and hate authoritarian people. Former leftie, now political homeless, but always a radical supporter of the constitutional democratic system.
I do something with IT Security...I love old computers and hate authoritarian people. Former leftie, now political homeless, but always a radical supporter of the constitutional democratic system.
Ken Thompson Recalls Unix’s Rowdy, Lock-Picking Origins
Ken Thompson's vivid recollection of the rowdy roomful of geeks at Bell Labs who built the digital world in a spirit of open play.
https://thenewstack.io/ken-thompson-recalls-unixs-rowdy-lock-picking-origins/
Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it).(He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.)(Was also @lorddimwit)
Father, husband, some sort of hacker, occasional computer scientist. I love programming, fonts, computing esoterica, and learning languages (even if I’m not very good at it).(He/him, BLM, LGBT+ and reproductive rights are human rights, left==labor, we only have one Earth.)(Was also @lorddimwit)
Research professor in the Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah. Co-director of the Flux Research Group: https://www.flux.utah.edu. I build research infrastructure: https://cloudlab.us, https://powderwireless.net, https://emulab.net, https://geni.net.I do not speak for my employer, nor do they speak for me Not a boffin Profile: Cartoon picture of a middle aged, bearded white man. Credit: Temporarii on fiverrBanner: Magtape of UNIX V4 and a VT220. Credit: Dan Hixson
Research professor in the Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah. Co-director of the Flux Research Group: https://www.flux.utah.edu. I build research infrastructure: https://cloudlab.us, https://powderwireless.net, https://emulab.net, https://geni.net.I do not speak for my employer, nor do they speak for me Not a boffin Profile: Cartoon picture of a middle aged, bearded white man. Credit: Temporarii on fiverrBanner: Magtape of UNIX V4 and a VT220. Credit: Dan Hixson
While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973
Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition
We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum
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