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Damals, als die iX noch eine Sonderpublikation der c't war: https://archive.org/details/ix-8811-ct-spezial-4 #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #technikgeschichte #techhistory #unixhistory

@stiefkind I don't know these (adding podcast to my queue), but MUNIX was also somewhat exotic. It ran on workstations built by PCS, a smallish German manufacturer. The most memorable (to me) feature was super-root (directory, not user): with a network of these computers, you could access the filesystem of another, say bernie, by going /../bernie/ - there is some logic to that.
#vintagecomputing #unixhistory

Podcast recommendation: Have you ever heard of OMNIX, LSX, or CROMIX? Those were early – and quite exotic – Unix distributions, long before Linux. Enjoy: https://adventofcomputing.com/?guid=5b2cf3fa-0f86-4750-b302-3fb6e362d1a9 #vintagecomputing #techhistory #unix #unixhistory #podcast

I hope everyone has seen it by now but this talk on the recently found Utah Research #unix V4 by @CoolSWEng is just wonderful:

https://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/FOSDEM/video/2026/h2215/DCDAUY-the_v4_tape_in_the_unix_history_repo.av1.webm

#UnixHistory

#unix #unixHistory https://www.bgr.com/2077916/university-of-utah-historic-os-tape-discovery/

L’Apollo Domain 2500, c’est le genre de machine qui te rappelle que “the network is the computer” n’est pas né avec le cloud ☁️
Architecture 32 bits, Domain/OS, réseau natif, CAO et calcul scientifique…
Une vraie station de travail, pas un jouet.
A lire : https://www.silicium.org/index.php/blog-catalogue/ordis/us/apollo-domain-2500

#RetroComputing #ApolloDomain #UnixHistory #Workstation #VintageTech

Run ancient Unix on modern hardware

https://github.com/felipenlunkes/run-ancient-unix

#HackerNews #RunAncientUnix #ModernHardware #UnixHistory #TechInnovation #OpenSource

Unix v4 Tape Found

https://discuss.systems/@ricci/115504720054699983

#HackerNews #Unix #v4 #Tape #Found #UnixHistory #TapeArchive #VintageComputing #HackerNews

52 Year old data tape could contain Unix history

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/unix_fourth_edition_tape_rediscovered/

#HackerNews #UnixHistory #DataTape #Rediscovered #TechNews #Computing #Archives

Ken Thompson recalls Unix's rowdy, lock-picking origins

https://thenewstack.io/ken-thompson-recalls-unixs-rowdy-lock-picking-origins/

#HackerNews #KenThompson #UnixHistory #TechInnovation #SoftwareDevelopment #LockPicking

🚫 Oh, the irony! In a desperate attempt to explore Unix's ancient past, you're met with a digital "Do Not Enter" sign. Turns out, even the history of `chown()` is a secret known only to the root gods. 🔒🙃
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ChownRestrictionEarlyHistory #UnixHistory #DigitalIrony #ChownSecrets #RootGods #HackerNews #ngated

»The new Unix, called OSF I, has been delayed considerably, and its user-interface is called OSF/Motif, which is in direct conflict with AT&T's Unix interface called Open Look.«

Found in an article about the state of Unix in "Your Computer", issue June 1990.

#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #unix #unixhistory #osf #techhistory #motif #openlook

👴🌞 Ah, the good old days when Sun Microsystems was a "tiny startup" and not just a nostalgic anecdote for boomers to reminisce about at dinner parties. Apparently, porting UNIX to mainframes was the pinnacle of excitement—40 years later, and it's still being dragged out like it was Woodstock. 🎸📜
https://akapugs.blog/2022/05/03/674/ #SunMicrosystems #Nostalgia #UNIXHistory #TechMemories #StartupCulture #HackerNews #ngated

Decided to display the VAX-11/750 at the @revspace open day yesterday. All the hard work repairing it seems to have paid off, managed to get 14 hours of uptime out of it before shutting it down at the end of the day! #unix #retrocomputing #dec #vax11 #minicomputer #unixhistory #bsd

@bso2000 Schau mal, was ich gestern Abend in meinem Alteisenarchiv gefunden habe 🙂 Das ist aus der allerersten Ausgabe ›Offene Systeme‹ vom März 1992. Deine Bücherliste geht auf der nächsten Seite noch weiter. #guug #unixhistory #vintagecomputing #unix

Edit: Das Shell-Buch von Herold hat mich die ersten Jahre meiner Unix-Karriere (ab ca. 1995) zuverlässig begleitet.

@bso2000 Schau mal, was ich gestern Abend in meinem Alteisenarchiv gefunden habe 🙂 Das ist aus der allerersten Ausgabe ›Offene Systeme‹ vom März 1992. Deine Bücherliste geht auf der nächsten Seite noch weiter. #guug #unixhistory #vintagecomputing #unix

Edit: Das Shell-Buch von Herold hat mich die ersten Jahre meiner Unix-Karriere (ab ca. 1995) zuverlässig begleitet.

Since I needed to point to it again for work reasons:
If you are writing shell scripts and you think that they are portable, you probably should know this webpage:
https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shells/
#posix #bash #bashscripting #linux #ksh #unix #unixhistory

Computer Historians please help me!
What Unix system did introduce user "nobody" and group "nogroup" ?
I see references to it being useful for NFS, but I am uncertain, if this really was it's original purpose/when it was introduced.
#computerhistory #unixhistory

I've been using Linux/BSD for 25 years (and Ultrix/OSF1 before that) but I never took the time to really think about readline. I should've done it sooner. #unixhistory https://twobithistory.org/2019/08/22/readline.html

https://bookmarks.tmp.directory/?vCIY0w: Unix50 - The Origin of Unix Panel Session https://youtu.be/lz3GADLe__M #unixhistory

https://bookmarks.tmp.directory/?D4-1Eg: Warner's Random Hacking Blog: The PDP-7 Where Unix Began https://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-pdp-7-where-unix-began.html #unixhistory #pdp7 #computerhistory #belllabs

https://bookmarks.tmp.directory/?oQjKUQ: Brian Kernighan interviews Ken Thompson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY6q5dv_B-o&t=7m23s #unixhistory

https://bookmarks.tmp.directory/?SSRVrQ: A Generation Lost in the Bazaar - ACM Queue https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257 #unix #unixhistory #freebsd #systems #softwaredependency #esr #softwarepackaging